Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.5 security update on RHEL 8

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.5 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.4 and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.5 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

• h4: Loading of custom classes from remote servers through JNDI (CVE-2022-23221)
• jackson-databind: denial of service via a large depth of nested objects (CVE-2020-36518)
• netty-codec: Bzip2Decoder doesn't allow setting size restrictions for decompressed data (CVE-2021-37136)
• netty-codec: SnappyFrameDecoder doesn't restrict chunk length and may buffer skippable chunks in an unnecessary way (CVE-2021-37137)
• h4: Remote Code Execution in Console (CVE-2021-42392)
• netty: control chars in header names may lead to HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2021-43797)
• xnio: org.xnio.StreamConnection.notifyReadClosed log to debug instead of stderr (CVE-2022-0084)
• wildfly: Wildfly management of EJB Session context returns wrong caller principal with Elytron Security enabled (CVE-2022-0866)
• undertow: Double AJP response for 400 from EAP 7 results in CPING failures (CVE-2022-1319)
• OpenJDK: Infinite loop related to incorrect handling of newlines in XMLEntityScanner (JAXP, 8270646) (CVE-2022-21299)
• mysql-connector-java: Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors (CVE-2022-21363)
• xerces-j2: infinite loop when handling specially crafted XML document payloads (CVE-2022-23437)
• artemis-commons: Apache ActiveMQ Artemis DoS (CVE-2022-23913)
• Moment.js: Path traversal in moment.locale (CVE-2022-24785)
• jboss-client: memory leakage in remote client transaction (CVE-2022-0853)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2004133 - CVE-2021-37136 netty-codec: Bzip2Decoder doesn't allow setting size restrictions for decompressed data
• BZ - 2004135 - CVE-2021-37137 netty-codec: SnappyFrameDecoder doesn't restrict chunk length and may buffer skippable chunks in an unnecessary way
• BZ - 2031958 - CVE-2021-43797 netty: control chars in header names may lead to HTTP request smuggling
• BZ - 2039403 - CVE-2021-42392 h4: Remote Code Execution in Console
• BZ - 2041472 - CVE-2022-21299 OpenJDK: Infinite loop related to incorrect handling of newlines in XMLEntityScanner (JAXP, 8270646)
• BZ - 2044596 - CVE-2022-23221 h4: Loading of custom classes from remote servers through JNDI
• BZ - 2047200 - CVE-2022-23437 xerces-j2: infinite loop when handling specially crafted XML document payloads
• BZ - 2047343 - CVE-2022-21363 mysql-connector-java: Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors
• BZ - 2060725 - CVE-2022-0853 jboss-client: memory leakage in remote client transaction
• BZ - 2060929 - CVE-2022-0866 wildfly: Wildfly management of EJB Session context returns wrong caller principal with Elytron Security enabled
• BZ - 2063601 - CVE-2022-23913 artemis-commons: Apache ActiveMQ Artemis DoS
• BZ - 2064226 - CVE-2022-0084 xnio: org.xnio.StreamConnection.notifyReadClosed log to debug instead of stderr
• BZ - 2064698 - CVE-2020-36518 jackson-databind: denial of service via a large depth of nested objects
• BZ - 2072009 - CVE-2022-24785 Moment.js: Path traversal in moment.locale
• BZ - 2073890 - CVE-2022-1319 undertow: Double AJP response for 400 from EAP 7 results in CPING failures
• JBEAP-23121 - Tracker bug for the EAP 7.4.5 release for RHEL-8
• JBEAP-23171 - (7.4.z) Upgrade HAL from 3.3.9.Final-redhat-00001 to 3.3.12.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-23194 - Upgrade hibernate-validator from 6.0.22.Final-redhat-00002 to 6.0.23-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-23241 - [GSS](7.4.z) Upgrade jberet from 1.3.9 to 1.3.9.SP1
• JBEAP-23299 - (7.4.z) Upgrade Artemis from 2.16.0.redhat-00034 to 2.16.0.redhat-00042
• JBEAP-23300 - [GSS](7.4.z) Upgrade JBoss Remoting from 5.0.23.SP1 to 5.0.24.SP1
• JBEAP-23312 - (7.4.z) Upgrade WildFly Core from 15.0.8.Final-redhat-00001 to 15.0.12.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-23313 - (7.4.z) Upgrade Elytron from 1.15.11.Final-redhat-00002 to 1.15.12.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-23336 - (7.4.z) Upgrade Hibernate ORM from 5.3.25.Final-redhat-00002 to 5.3.26.Final-redhat-00002
• JBEAP-23338 - [GSS](7.4.z) Upgrade Undertow from 2.2.16 to 2.2.17.SP3
• JBEAP-23339 - [GSS](7.4.z) Upgrade wildfly-http-ejb-client from 1.1.10 to 1.1.11.SP1
• JBEAP-23351 - (7.4.z) Upgrade org.apache.logging.log4j from 2.17.1.redhat-00001 to 2.17.1.redhat-00002
• JBEAP-23353 - (7.4.z) Upgrade wildfly-transaction-client from 1.1.14.Final-redhat-00001 to 1.1.15.Final-redhat-x
• JBEAP-23429 - [PM](7.4.z) JDK17 Update Tested Configurations page and make note in Update release notes
• JBEAP-23432 - [GSS](7.4.z) Upgrade JSF API from 3.0.0.SP04 to 3.0.0.SP05
• JBEAP-23451 - [PST] (7.4.z) Upgrade to FasterXML Jackson to 2.12.6.redhat-00001 and Jackson Databind to 2.12.6.1.redhat-00003
• JBEAP-23531 - [GSS](7.4.z) Upgrade Undertow from 2.2.17.SP3 to 2.2.17.SP4
• JBEAP-23532 - (7.4.z) Upgrade WildFly Core from 15.0.12.Final-redhat-00001 to 15.0.13.Final-redhat-00001

CVEs

• CVE-2020-36518
• CVE-2021-37136
• CVE-2021-37137
• CVE-2021-42392
• CVE-2021-43797
• CVE-2022-0084
• CVE-2022-0853
• CVE-2022-0866
• CVE-2022-1319
• CVE-2022-21299
• CVE-2022-21363
• CVE-2022-23221
• CVE-2022-23437
• CVE-2022-23913
• CVE-2022-24785

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.4/
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.4/html-single/installation_guide/