Issued:
2015-05-14
Updated:
2015-05-14

RHSA-2015:1009 - Important: Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.2.0 update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.2.0 update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.2.0, 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.

Red Hat JBoss Portal is the open source implementation of the Java EE suite of services and Portal services running atop Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Description

This release of Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.2.0 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.1.1, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. Refer to the Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.2.0 Release Notes for information on the most significant of these changes. The Release Notes are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_JBoss_Portal/

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 / Apache CXF: SSL hostname verification bypass

CVE-2013-1624 bouncycastle: TLS CBC padding timing attack

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

CVE-2013-4286 JBossWeb: multiple content-length header poisoning flaws

CVE-2013-5855 Mojarra JSF2: XSS due to insufficient escaping of user-supplied content in outputText tags and EL expressions

CVE-2013-7285 XStream: remote code execution due to insecure XML deserialization

CVE-2014-0005 PicketBox/JBossSX: Security domain authentication configuration modifiable by application

CVE-2014-0018 JBoss AS Server: Unchecked access to MSC Service Registry under JSM

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-2014-0050 JBossWeb: denial of service due to too-small buffer size used bt MultipartStream

CVE-2014-0058 Red Hat JBoss EAP 6: Plain text password logging

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

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

CVE-2014-0086 JBoss RichFaces: remote denial of service via memory exhaustion

CVE-2014-0093 Red Hat JBoss EAP 6: JSM policy not respected by deployed applications

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

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

CVE-2014-0107 Xalan-Java: insufficient constraints in secure processing feature (oCERT-2014-002)

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

CVE-2014-0110 Apache CXF: Large invalid content fills temporary space

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

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

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

CVE-2014-0245 GateIn WSRP: Information disclosure via unsafe concurrency handling in interceptor

CVE-2014-3472 JBoss AS Controller: Invalid EJB caller role check

CVE-2014-3481 JBoss AS JAX RS Integration: Information disclosure via XML XXE

CVE-2014-3490 RESTEasy: XXE via parameter entities

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

CVE-2014-3574 Apache POI: entity expansion (billion laughs) flaw

CVE-2014-3529 Apache POI: XXE flaw

CVE-2014-3577 Apache HttpComponents incomplete fix for CVE-2012-6153

CVE-2014-3586 JBoss AS CLI: Insecure default permissions on history file

CVE-2014-4172 Cas-client: Bypass of security constraints via URL parameter injection

Red Hat would like to thank James Roper of Typesafe for reporting CVE-2014-0193, CA Technologies for reporting CVE-2014-3472, and Alexander Papadakis for reporting CVE-2014-3530. The CVE-2013-2133 issue was discovered by Richard Opalka and Arun Neelicattu of Red Hat, the CVE-2014-0005 issue was discovered by Josef Cacek of the Red Hat JBoss EAP Quality Engineering team, the CVE-2014-0018 issue was discovered by Stuart Douglas of Red Hat, the CVE-2014-3481 issue was discovered by the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform QE team, the CVE-2014-0075 and CVE-2014-3490 issues were discovered by David Jorm of Red Hat Product Security, and the CVE-2014-0093 issue was discovered by Josef Cacek of the Red Hat JBoss EAP Quality Engineering team.

Solution

All users of Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.1.1 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to upgrade to Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.2.0.

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update). Before applying the update, back up all applications deployed on JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, along with all customized configuration files, and any databases and database settings.

Affected Products

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Red Hat JBoss MiddlewareText-Only Advisoriesx86_64

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