Issued:

2015-11-20

Updated:

2015-11-20

RHSA-2015:2500 - Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 security update

Synopsis

Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

Updated packages for the Apache commons-collections library for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4, which fix one security issue, are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Description

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

It was found that the Apache commons-collections library permitted code execution when deserializing objects involving a specially constructed chain of classes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application using the commons-collections library. (CVE-2015-7501)

Further information about this security flaw may be found at: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2045023

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata, relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• apache-commons-collections-eap6-3.2.1-16.redhat_5.1.ep6.el6.src.rpm
• apache-commons-collections-eap6-3.2.1-16.redhat_5.1.ep6.el5.src.rpm
• apache-commons-collections-eap6-3.2.1-16.redhat_5.1.ep6.el5.noarch.rpm
• apache-commons-collections-eap6-3.2.1-16.redhat_5.1.ep6.el6.noarch.rpm
• apache-commons-collections-eap6-3.2.1-16.redhat_5.1.ep6.el7.noarch.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

• CVE-2015-7501

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2045023

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.