Issued:
2014-01-15
Updated:
2014-01-15

RHSA-2014:0029 - Important: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.2.0 update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.2.0 update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.2.0, which fixes multiple security issues, various bugs, and adds enhancements, is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

Red Hat JBoss Data Grid is a distributed in-memory data grid, based on Infinispan.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.2.0 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.1.0. It includes various bug fixes and enhancements which are detailed in the Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.2.0 Release Notes. The Release Notes will be available shortly from https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/Red_Hat_JBoss_Data_Grid/

This update also fixes the following security issues:

Multiple path traversal flaws where found in the Mojarra JSF2 implementation for identifying resources by name or by library. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could use these flaws to gather otherwise undisclosed information from within an application's root directory. (CVE-2013-3827)

It was found that the SolrResourceLoader class in Apache Solr allowed loading of resources via absolute paths, or relative paths which were not sanitized for directory traversal. Some Solr components expose REST interfaces which load resources (XSL style sheets and Velocity templates) via SolrResourceLoader, using paths identified by REST parameters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to load arbitrary local files on the server via SolrResourceLoader, potentially resulting in information disclosure or remote code execution. (CVE-2013-6397)

It was found that the XML and XSLT UpdateRequestHandler classes in Apache Solr would resolve external entities, allowing an attacker to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks. A remote attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks. (CVE-2012-6612, CVE-2013-6407)

It was found that the DocumentAnalysisRequestHandler class in Apache Solr would resolve external entities, allowing an attacker to conduct XXE attacks. A remote attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks. (CVE-2013-6408)

The data file used by PicketBox Vault to store encrypted passwords contains a copy of its own admin key. The file is encrypted using only this admin key, not the corresponding JKS key. A local attacker with permission to read the vault data file could read the admin key from the file. (CVE-2013-1921)

The HawtJNI Library class wrote native libraries to a predictable file name in /tmp/ when the native libraries were bundled in a JAR file, and no custom library path was specified. A local attacker could overwrite these native libraries with malicious versions during the window between when HawtJNI writes them and when they are executed. (CVE-2013-2035)

A flaw was found in JGroup's DiagnosticsHandler that allowed an attacker on an adjacent network to reuse the credentials from a previous successful authentication. This could be exploited to read diagnostic information (information disclosure) and attain limited remote code execution. (CVE-2013-4112)

Note that CVE-2013-6397, CVE-2013-6407, and CVE-2013-6408 are not exposed by default. They are only exploitable if a user has manually exposed servlets provided in the Apachr Solr component that ships with Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, or written their own code that makes use of the vulnerable elements of Apache Solr.

The CVE-2013-2035 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.1.0 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to upgrade to Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.2.0.

Solution

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update). Before applying this update, back up your existing JBoss Data Grid installation.

Affected Products

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Red Hat JBoss Data GridText-Only Advisoriesx86_64

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