Issued:
2016-01-14
Updated:
2016-01-14

RHSA-2016:0041 - Moderate: Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.1.5 update


Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.1.5 update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.1.5, which fixes one security issue, 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 Moderate 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 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 6.1.5 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.1.2, and includes bug fixes and enhancements that are documented in the README.txt file included with the patch files.

The following security issue is also fixed with this release:

It was found that batik was vulnerable to XML External Entity attacks when parsing SVG files. A remote attacker able to send malicious SVG content to the affected server could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks. (CVE-2015-0250)

All users of Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.1.2 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to upgrade to Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.1.5.

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 forth.

It is recommended to halt the server by stopping the JBoss Application Server process before installing this update; 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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