Issued:

2014-04-01

Updated:

2014-04-01

RHSA-2014:0348 - Important: xalan-j2 security update

Synopsis

Important: xalan-j2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated xalan-j2 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Description

Xalan-Java is an XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types.

It was found that the secure processing feature of Xalan-Java had insufficient restrictions defined for certain properties and features. A remote attacker able to provide Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) content to be processed by an application using Xalan-Java could use this flaw to bypass the intended constraints of the secure processing feature. Depending on the components available in the classpath, this could lead to arbitrary remote code execution in the context of the application server running the application that uses Xalan-Java. (CVE-2014-0107)

All xalan-j2 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• xalan-j2-2.7.0-6jpp.2.x86_64.rpm
• xalan-j2-debuginfo-2.7.0-6jpp.2.i386.rpm
• xalan-j2-xsltc-2.7.0-6jpp.2.s390x.rpm
• xalan-j2-2.7.0-6jpp.2.i386.rpm
• xalan-j2-demo-2.7.0-6jpp.2.x86_64.rpm
• xalan-j2-manual-2.7.0-6jpp.2.i386.rpm
• xalan-j2-debuginfo-2.7.0-6jpp.2.s390x.rpm
• xalan-j2-demo-2.7.0-6jpp.2.ppc.rpm
• xalan-j2-debuginfo-2.7.0-6jpp.2.x86_64.rpm
• xalan-j2-debuginfo-2.7.0-6jpp.2.ia64.rpm
• xalan-j2-xsltc-2.7.0-6jpp.2.i386.rpm
• xalan-j2-javadoc-2.7.0-6jpp.2.ppc.rpm
• xalan-j2-manual-2.7.0-6jpp.2.s390x.rpm
• xalan-j2-manual-2.7.0-6jpp.2.ppc.rpm
• xalan-j2-xsltc-2.7.0-6jpp.2.ppc.rpm
• xalan-j2-demo-2.7.0-9.9.el6_5.noarch.rpm
• xalan-j2-demo-2.7.0-6jpp.2.ia64.rpm
• xalan-j2-2.7.0-6jpp.2.s390x.rpm
• xalan-j2-demo-2.7.0-6jpp.2.i386.rpm
• xalan-j2-manual-2.7.0-6jpp.2.ia64.rpm
• xalan-j2-javadoc-2.7.0-6jpp.2.ia64.rpm
• xalan-j2-xsltc-2.7.0-9.9.el6_5.noarch.rpm
• xalan-j2-2.7.0-9.9.el6_5.src.rpm
• xalan-j2-javadoc-2.7.0-6jpp.2.s390x.rpm
• xalan-j2-javadoc-2.7.0-6jpp.2.x86_64.rpm
• xalan-j2-2.7.0-6jpp.2.src.rpm
• xalan-j2-xsltc-2.7.0-6jpp.2.ia64.rpm
• xalan-j2-manual-2.7.0-9.9.el6_5.noarch.rpm
• xalan-j2-manual-2.7.0-6jpp.2.x86_64.rpm
• xalan-j2-javadoc-2.7.0-6jpp.2.i386.rpm
• xalan-j2-debuginfo-2.7.0-6jpp.2.ppc.rpm
• xalan-j2-demo-2.7.0-6jpp.2.s390x.rpm
• xalan-j2-2.7.0-6jpp.2.ia64.rpm
• xalan-j2-xsltc-2.7.0-6jpp.2.x86_64.rpm
• xalan-j2-javadoc-2.7.0-9.9.el6_5.noarch.rpm
• xalan-j2-2.7.0-9.9.el6_5.noarch.rpm
• xalan-j2-2.7.0-6jpp.2.ppc.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1080248

CVEs

• CVE-2014-0107

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.