Issued:
2015-04-16
Updated:
2015-04-16

RHSA-2015:0850 - Important: Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.1.0 update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.1.0 update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.1.0, which fixes multiple 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 release of Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.1.0 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0.3, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. Refer to the Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.1.0 Release Notes for information on the most significant of these changes. The Release Notes are available at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_JBoss_BRMS/

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 Jakarta Commons httpclient / Apache CXF: SSL hostname verification bypass, incomplete CVE-2012-5783 fix

CVE-2013-2133 JBoss WS: EJB3 role restrictions are not applied to jaxws handlers

CVE-2013-4517 Apache Santuario XML Security for Java: Java XML Signature DoS Attack

CVE-2013-7397 async-http-client: SSL/TLS certificate verification is disabled under certain conditions

CVE-2013-7398 async-http-client: missing hostname verification for SSL certificates

CVE-2014-0034 Apache CXF: The SecurityTokenService accepts certain invalid SAML Tokens as valid

CVE-2014-0035 Apache CXF: UsernameTokens are sent in plaintext with a Symmetric EncryptBeforeSigning policy

CVE-2014-0059 JBossSX/PicketBox: World readable audit.log file

CVE-2014-0109 Apache CXF: HTML content posted to SOAP endpoint could cause OOM errors

CVE-2014-0110 Apache CXF: Large invalid content could cause temporary space to fill

CVE-2014-3577 Jakarta Commons httpclient / Apache CXF: SSL hostname verification bypass, incomplete CVE-2012-6153 fix

CVE-2014-3623 Apache WSS4J / Apache CXF: Improper security semantics enforcement of SAML SubjectConfirmation methods

CVE-2014-7827 JBoss Security: Wrong security context loaded when using SAML2 STS Login Module

CVE-2014-7839 RESTeasy: External entities expanded by DocumentProvider

CVE-2014-8122 JBoss Weld: Limited information disclosure via stale thread state

CVE-2014-8125 jBPM: BPMN2 file processing XXE in Process Execution

Red Hat would like to thank Rune Steinseth of JProfessionals for reporting the CVE-2014-8122 issue. The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security; the CVE-2014-8125 was discovered by Jeremy Lindop of Red Hat; the CVE-2014-7827 issue was discovered by Ondra Lukas of the Red Hat Quality Engineering Team; the CVE-2013-2133 issue was discovered by Richard Opalka and Arun Neelicattu of Red Hat.

All users of Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0.3 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to upgrade to Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.1.0.

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat JBoss MiddlewareText-Only Advisoriesx86_64

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