Important: Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes Vert.x 3.8.3 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes Vert.x 3.8.3 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes.

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 OpenShift Application Runtimes provide an application platform that reduces the complexity of developing and operating applications (monoliths and microservices) for OpenShift as a containerized platform.

This release of RHOAR Vert.x 3.8.3 includes security updates, bug fixes, and enhancements. For more information, see the release notes linked to in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

• infinispan: invokeAccessibly method from ReflectionUtil class allows to invoke private methods (CVE-2019-10174)
  
• jackson-databind: failure to block the logback-core class from polymorphic deserialization leading to remote code execution (CVE-2019-12384)
  
• jackson-databind: default typing mishandling leading to remote code execution (CVE-2019-14379)
  
• jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the commons-dbcp package (CVE-2019-16942)
  
• netty: HTTP request smuggling by mishandled whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (CVE-2019-16869)
  

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

Solution

Before applying the update, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings, and so on.

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).

Affected Products

• Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1703469 - CVE-2019-10174 infinispan: invokeAccessibly method from ReflectionUtil class allows to invoke private methods
• BZ - 1725807 - CVE-2019-12384 jackson-databind: failure to block the logback-core class from polymorphic deserialization leading to remote code execution
• BZ - 1737517 - CVE-2019-14379 jackson-databind: default typing mishandling leading to remote code execution
• BZ - 1758187 - CVE-2019-16942 jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the commons-dbcp package
• BZ - 1758619 - CVE-2019-16869 netty: HTTP request smuggling by mishandled whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers

CVEs

• CVE-2019-10174
• CVE-2019-12384
• CVE-2019-14379
• CVE-2019-16869
• CVE-2019-16942

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_build_of_eclipse_vert.x/3.8/html/release_notes_for_eclipse_vert.x_3.8/index
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=distributions&product=catRhoar.eclipse.vertx&version=3.8.3