Issued:
2015-11-30
Updated:
2015-11-30

RHSA-2015:2521 - Important: jakarta-commons-collections security update

Synopsis

Important: jakarta-commons-collections security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated jakarta-commons-collections packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important 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

The Jakarta/Apache Commons Collections library provides new interfaces, implementations, and utilities to extend the features of the Java Collections Framework.

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)

With this update, deserialization of certain classes in the commons-collections library is no longer allowed. Applications that require those classes to be deserialized can use the system property "org.apache.commons.collections.enableUnsafeSerialization" to re-enable their deserialization.

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

All users of jakarta-commons-collections are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. All running applications using the commons-collections library 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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.7i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support6.7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support6.7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI6.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI6.7i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node6.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • jakarta-commons-collections-javadoc-3.2.1-3.5.el6_7.noarch.rpm
  • jakarta-commons-collections-tomcat5-3.2.1-3.5.el6_7.noarch.rpm
  • jakarta-commons-collections-3.2.1-3.5.el6_7.noarch.rpm
  • jakarta-commons-collections-testframework-javadoc-3.2.1-3.5.el6_7.noarch.rpm
  • jakarta-commons-collections-testframework-3.2.1-3.5.el6_7.noarch.rpm
  • jakarta-commons-collections-3.2.1-3.5.el6_7.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information