Issued:

2015-01-27

Updated:

2015-01-27

RHSA-2015:0091 - Important: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.0 update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.0 update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.0, which fixes one security issue, multiple 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 Data Grid is a distributed in-memory data grid, based on Infinispan.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.0 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.1. It includes various bug fixes and enhancements, which are detailed in the Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.0 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 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 CVE-2014-3530.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.1 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to upgrade to Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.0.

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

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1112987

CVEs

• CVE-2014-0227
• CVE-2014-3530

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?downloadType=distributions&product=data.grid&version=6.4.0
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_JBoss_Data_Grid/

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.