Issued:

2015-11-25

Updated:

2015-11-25

RHSA-2015:2516 - Critical: Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5.3.1 commons-collections security update

Synopsis

Critical: Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5.3.1 commons-collections security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

An update for the Apache Commons Collections component that fixes one security issue is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal for Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5.3.1.

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

Apache Commons Collections is a library built upon Java JDK classes by providing new interfaces, implementations and utilities.

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 SOA Platform 5.3.1 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to apply this security update.

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 SOA Platform installation (including its databases, applications, configuration files, and so on).

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

Affected Products

Fixes

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CVEs

• CVE-2015-7501

References

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