Issued:
2015-03-31
Updated:
2015-03-31

RHSA-2015:0765 - Important: Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.0.0 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.0.0 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.0.0 2015 roll up patch 1, which fixes multiple security issues and various bugs, 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 Virtualization is a lean data integration solution that provides easy, real-time, and unified data access across disparate sources to multiple applications and users. JBoss Data Virtualization makes data spread across physically distinct systems-such as multiple databases, XML files, and even Hadoop systems-appear as a set of tables in a local database.

This roll up patch serves as a cumulative upgrade for Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.0.0. It includes various bug fixes, which are listed in the README file included with the patch files.

The following security issues are also fixed with this release, descriptions of which can be found on the respective CVE pages linked in the References section.

CVE-2012-6153 Apache HttpComponents client: SSL hostname verification bypass, incomplete CVE-2012-5783 fix

CVE-2014-3577 Apache HttpComponents client: SSL hostname verification bypass, incomplete CVE-2012-6153 fix

CVE-2014-3530 PicketLink: XXE via insecure DocumentBuilderFactory usage

CVE-2013-4002 Xerces-J2 OpenJDK: XML parsing Denial of Service (JAXP, 8017298)

CVE-2013-5855 Mojarra JSF: XSS due to insufficient escaping of user-supplied content in outputText tags and EL expressions

CVE-2014-0075 Tomcat/JBossWeb: Limited DoS in chunked transfer encoding input filter

CVE-2014-0099 Tomcat/JBossWeb: Request smuggling via malicious content length header

CVE-2014-3481 JBoss AS JAX-RS: Information disclosure via XML eXternal Entity (XXE)

CVE-2014-3490 RESTEasy: XXE via parameter entities

CVE-2014-0096 Tomcat/JBossWeb: XXE vulnerability via user supplied XSLTs

CVE-2014-0119 Tomcat/JBossWeb: XML parser hijack by malicious web application

CVE-2014-0193 netty: DoS via memory exhaustion during data aggregation

CVE-2014-0227 Tomcat/JBossWeb: Limited DoS in chunked transfer encoding input filter

Red Hat would like to thank James Roper of Typesafe for reporting CVE-2014-0193, and Alexander Papadakis for reporting CVE-2014-3530. The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security, the CVE-2014-0075 and CVE-2014-3490 issues were discovered by David Jorm of Red Hat Product Security, and the CVE-2014-3481 issue was discovered by the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform QE team.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.0.0 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 Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization installation (including its databases, applications, configuration files, and so on).

Note that it is recommended to halt the Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization server by stopping the JBoss Application Server process before installing this update, and then after installing the update, restart the Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization server by starting the JBoss Application Server process.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat JBoss MiddlewareText-Only Advisoriesx86_64

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