Issued:
2014-09-29
Updated:
2014-09-29

RHSA-2014:1321 - Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated packages for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.

Red Hat Product Security 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 Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications, which integrates the JBoss Application Server with JBoss Hibernate and JBoss Seam.

It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-5783 was incomplete: the code added to check that the server host name matches the domain name in a subject's Common Name (CN) field in X.509 certificates was flawed. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2012-6153)

It was discovered that the HttpClient incorrectly extracted host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2014-3577)

The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

For additional information on these flaws, refer to the Knowledgebase article in the References section.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 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 your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 installation (including all applications and configuration files).

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

ProductVersionArch
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform5x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform5x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform5i386
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform5i386
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform from RHUI5x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform from RHUI5i386

Updated Packages

  • jboss-seam2-examples-2.2.6.EAP5-22_patch_01.el6.noarch.rpm
  • jboss-seam2-runtime-2.2.6.EAP5-22_patch_01.el6.noarch.rpm
  • jboss-seam2-docs-2.2.6.EAP5-22_patch_01.el6.noarch.rpm
  • jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-4_patch_02.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • jboss-seam2-runtime-2.2.6.EAP5-22_patch_01.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • jboss-seam2-2.2.6.EAP5-22_patch_01.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • jboss-seam2-2.2.6.EAP5-22_patch_01.ep5.el5.src.rpm
  • jboss-seam2-examples-2.2.6.EAP5-22_patch_01.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • jboss-seam2-docs-2.2.6.EAP5-22_patch_01.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-4_patch_02.ep5.el5.src.rpm
  • jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-4_patch_02.el6_5.noarch.rpm
  • jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-4_patch_02.el6_5.src.rpm
  • jboss-seam2-2.2.6.EAP5-22_patch_01.el6.src.rpm
  • jboss-seam2-2.2.6.EAP5-22_patch_01.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information