Important: rh-maven35-slf4j security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-8088   CVE-2018-8088   CVE-2018-8088  

Synopsis

Important: rh-maven35-slf4j security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for rh-maven35-slf4j is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) is a simple facade for various logging APIs allowing the end-user to plug in the desired implementation at deployment time. SLF4J also allows for a gradual migration path away from Jakarta Commons Logging (JCL).

Security Fix(es):

  • slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-8088)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Chris McCown for reporting this issue.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.6 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.5 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.5 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.4 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.4 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.3 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.3 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1548909 - CVE-2018-8088 slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution

CVEs

References