Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.7 release and security update

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.7 release and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 7, 8, and 9.

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 Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), the PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native library.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.7 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.6. This release includes bug fixes, enhancements and component upgrades, which are documented in the Release Notes linked to in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

  • jbcs-httpd24-openssl: OpenSSL: Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value (CVE-2023-3817)
  • openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters (CVE-2023-3446)
  • openssl: Certificate policy check not enabled (CVE-2023-0466)
  • openssl: Invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates are silently ignored (CVE-2023-0465)
  • openssl: Denial of service by excessive resource usage in verifying X509 policy constraints (CVE-2023-0464)
  • openssl: Possible DoS translating ASN.1 object identifiers (CVE-2023-2650)
  • tomcat: Open Redirect vulnerability in FORM authentication (CVE-2023-41080)

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

  • JBoss Enterprise Web Server 5 for RHEL 9 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Web Server 5 for RHEL 8 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Web Server 5 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2181082 - CVE-2023-0464 openssl: Denial of service by excessive resource usage in verifying X509 policy constraints
  • BZ - 2182561 - CVE-2023-0465 openssl: Invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates are silently ignored
  • BZ - 2182565 - CVE-2023-0466 openssl: Certificate policy check not enabled
  • BZ - 2207947 - CVE-2023-2650 openssl: Possible DoS translating ASN.1 object identifiers
  • BZ - 2224962 - CVE-2023-3446 openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters
  • BZ - 2227852 - CVE-2023-3817 OpenSSL: Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value
  • BZ - 2235370 - CVE-2023-41080 tomcat: Open Redirect vulnerability in FORM authentication