Issued:

2016-06-23

Updated:

2016-06-23

RHSA-2016:1328 - Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 security update

Synopsis

Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 from the Customer Portal.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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 Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications, which integrates the JBoss Application Server with JBoss Hibernate and JBoss Seam.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for JGroups package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2. More information about this vulnerability is available at: https://access.redhat.com/articles/2360521

Security Fix(es):

• It was found that JGroups did not require necessary headers for encrypt and auth protocols from new nodes joining the cluster. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass security restrictions, and use this vulnerability to send and receive messages within the cluster, leading to information disclosure, message spoofing, or further possible attacks. (CVE-2016-2141)

The CVE-2016-2141 issue was discovered by Dennis Reed (Red Hat).

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. Also, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 installation (including all applications and configuration files).

The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• jgroups-2.6.22-2.ep5.el6.src.rpm
• jgroups-2.6.22-2.ep5.el5.src.rpm
• jgroups-2.6.22-2.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
• jgroups-2.6.22-2.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1313589

CVEs

• CVE-2016-2141

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal

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.