Issued:

2014-07-15

Updated:

2014-07-15

RHSA-2014:0883 - Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.4 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.4 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.4 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

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

It was found that the implementation of the org.picketlink.common.util.DocumentUtil.getDocumentBuilderFactory() method provided a DocumentBuilderFactory that would expand entity references. A remote, unauthenticated 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-2014-3530)

Red Hat would like to thank Alexander Papadakis for reporting this issue.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. Also, back up any customized Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 configuration files. On update, the configuration files that have been locally modified will not be updated. The updated version of such files will be stored as the rpmnew files. Make sure to locate any such files after the update and merge any changes manually.

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/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• picketlink-federation-2.1.9-5.SP3_redhat_2.1.ep6.el6.noarch.rpm
• picketlink-federation-2.1.9-5.SP3_redhat_2.1.ep6.el6.src.rpm
• picketlink-federation-2.1.9-5.SP3_redhat_2.1.ep6.el5.noarch.rpm
• picketlink-federation-2.1.9-5.SP3_redhat_2.1.ep6.el5.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1112987

CVEs

• CVE-2014-3530

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.