Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-7525   CVE-2018-7489   CVE-2018-7489   CVE-2017-7525   CVE-2018-1114   CVE-2018-7489  

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.3 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.2, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

  • jackson-databind: incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525 permits unsafe serialization via c3p0 libraries (CVE-2018-7489)

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

For the update to take effect, all services linked to the OpenSSL library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

Affected Products

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 1549276 - CVE-2018-7489 jackson-databind: incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525 permits unsafe serialization via c3p0 libraries

CVEs

References