Issued:
2014-09-24
Updated:
2014-09-24

RHSA-2014:1298 - Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.1 update

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.1 update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.1, which fixes one security issue and multiple bugs, is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate 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 Data Grid is a distributed in-memory data grid, based on Infinispan.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.1 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.0. It includes various bug fixes which are detailed in the Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.1 Release Notes. The Release Notes are available at: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_JBoss_Data_Grid/

This update also fixes the following security issue:

It was found that the external parameter entities were not disabled when the resteasy.document.expand.entity.references parameter was set to false. A remote attacker able to send XML requests to a RESTEasy endpoint could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks. (CVE-2014-3490)

The CVE-2014-3490 issue was discovered by David Jorm of Red Hat Product Security.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.0 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to upgrade to Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.1.

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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