Issued:

2014-11-24

Updated:

2014-11-24

RHSA-2014:1891 - Important: Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0.3 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0.3 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0.3 roll up patch 1, which fixes two security issues, several bugs, and adds various enhancements, is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal.

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 BRMS is a business rules management system for the management, storage, creation, modification, and deployment of JBoss Rules.

This roll up patch serves as a cumulative upgrade for Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0.3, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. It includes various bug fixes, which are listed in the README file included with the patch files.

The following security issues are fixed with this release:

It was discovered that Jakarta Commons HttpClient incorrectly extracted the 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-2012-6153, CVE-2014-3577)

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

All users of Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0.3 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to apply this roll up patch.

Solution

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update). Before applying the update, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings, and so on.

It is recommended to halt the server by stopping the JBoss Application Server process before installing this update, and then after installing the update, restart the server by starting the JBoss Application Server process.

Affected Products

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1129074
• This content is not included.BZ - 1129916

CVEs

• CVE-2012-6153
• CVE-2014-3577

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• This content is not included.This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=brms&downloadType=distributions&version=6.0.3

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.