Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.4 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.4 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.

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 release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.4 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.4 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

• jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (CVE-2020-25649)
  
• hibernate-core: SQL injection vulnerability when both hibernate.use_sql_comments and JPQL String literals are used (CVE-2020-25638)
  
• wildfly-openssl: memory leak per HTTP session creation in WildFly OpenSSL (CVE-2020-25644)
  

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, ensure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

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 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1881353 - CVE-2020-25638 hibernate-core: SQL injection vulnerability when both hibernate.use_sql_comments and JPQL String literals are used
• BZ - 1885485 - CVE-2020-25644 wildfly-openssl: memory leak per HTTP session creation in WildFly OpenSSL
• BZ - 1887664 - CVE-2020-25649 jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE)

CVEs

• CVE-2020-25638
• CVE-2020-25644
• CVE-2020-25649

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/