Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8.

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 the WildFly application runtime.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8.

Security Fix(es):

• wildfly: unsafe deserialization in Wildfly Enterprise Java Beans (CVE-2020-10740)
  
• jboss-ejb-client: wildfly: EJB SessionOpenInvocations may not be removed properly after a response is received causing Denial of Service (CVE-2020-14307)
  
• jboss-ejb-client: wildfly: Some EJB transaction objects may get accumulated causing Denial of Service (CVE-2020-14297)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, see 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.

You must restart the JBoss server process for the update to take effect.

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

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1834512 - CVE-2020-10740 wildfly: unsafe deserialization in Wildfly Enterprise Java Beans
• BZ - 1851327 - CVE-2020-14307 wildfly: EJB SessionOpenInvocations may not be removed properly after a response is received causing Denial of Service
• BZ - 1853595 - CVE-2020-14297 wildfly: Some EJB transaction objects may get accumulated causing Denial of Service

CVEs

• CVE-2020-10740
• CVE-2020-14297
• CVE-2020-14307

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/html-single/installation_guide/