Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.

Security Fix(es):

• jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation (CVE-2016-8656)
  
• jboss: jbossas writable config files allow privilege escalation (CVE-2016-8657)
  

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.

Solution

Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

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

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 i386
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1400343 - CVE-2016-8657 jboss: jbossas writable config files allow privilege escalation
• BZ - 1400344 - CVE-2016-8656 jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation

CVEs

• CVE-2016-8656
• CVE-2016-8657

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/3422211