Issued:
2015-04-01
Updated:
2015-04-01

RHSA-2015:0773 - Important: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.1 update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.1 update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.1, which fixes several security issues, 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 6.4.1 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.0. It includes various bug fixes and enhancements, which are detailed in the Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.1 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 issues:

It was found that a prior countermeasure in Apache WSS4J for Bleichenbacher's attack on XML Encryption (CVE-2011-2487) threw an exception that permitted an attacker to determine the failure of the attempted attack, thereby leaving WSS4J vulnerable to the attack. The original flaw allowed a remote attacker to recover the entire plain text form of a symmetric key. (CVE-2015-0226)

A resource consumption issue was found in the way Xerces-J handled XML declarations. A remote attacker could use an XML document with a specially crafted declaration using a long pseudo-attribute name that, when parsed by an application using Xerces-J, would cause that application to use an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2013-4002)

It was found that the RESTEasy DocumentProvider did not set the external-parameter-entities and external-general-entities features appropriately, thus allowing external entity expansion. 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 XML eXternal Entity (XXE) attacks. (CVE-2014-7839)

It was found that Apache WSS4J permitted bypass of the requireSignedEncryptedDataElements configuration property via XML Signature wrapping attacks. A remote attacker could use this flaw to modify the contents of a signed request. (CVE-2015-0227)

It was discovered that under specific conditions the conversation state information stored in a thread-local variable in JBoss Weld was not sanitized correctly when the conversation ended. This could lead to a race condition that could potentially expose sensitive information from a previous conversation to the current conversation. (CVE-2014-8122)

Red Hat would like to thank Rune Steinseth of JProfessionals for reporting the CVE-2014-8122 issue.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.0 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to upgrade to Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4.1.

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat JBoss Data GridText-Only Advisoriesx86_64

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