Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform from the Customer Portal.

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 7 is a platform for Java applications based on Wildfly.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for wildfly-core and apache-cxf packages in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1

Security Fix(es):

• apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.* (CVE-2018-8039)
  
• wildfly-core: Path traversal can allow the extraction of .war archives to write arbitrary files. (CVE-2018-10862)

Solution

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

The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1593527 - CVE-2018-10862 wildfly-core: Path traversal can allow the extraction of .war archives to write arbitrary files (Zip Slip)
• BZ - 1595332 - CVE-2018-8039 apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.*

CVEs

• CVE-2018-8039
• CVE-2018-10862

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important