Issued:
2016-06-09
Updated:
2016-06-09

RHSA-2016:1219 - Moderate: Red Hat JBoss BRMS security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat JBoss BRMS security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss BRMS.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) 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.

Security Fix(es):

  • A denial of service flaw was found in the way Spring processes inline DTD declarations. A remote attacker could submit a specially crafted XML file that would cause out-of-memory errors when parsed. (CVE-2015-3192)

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 on.

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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