Issued:

2016-06-23

Updated:

2016-06-23

RHSA-2016:1330 - Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 security update

Synopsis

Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 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 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for JGroups package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• jgroups-3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5.src.rpm
• jgroups-3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7.noarch.rpm
• jgroups-3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6.src.rpm
• jgroups-3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7.src.rpm
• jgroups-3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5.noarch.rpm
• jgroups-3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1313589
• This content is not included.BZ - 1343598
• This content is not included.BZ - 1343599
• This content is not included.BZ - 1343600

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.