Issued:
2017-11-06
Updated:
2017-11-06

RHSA-2017:3123 - Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

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.

[Updated 6th November 2017] Previously, this erratum was marked as having a security impact of Critical. This was incorrect; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 was affected with a security impact of Moderate. This advisory has been updated to that effect.

Description

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for lucene package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.8.

Security Fix(es):

  • It was found that Apache Lucene would accept an object from an unauthenticated user that could be manipulated through subsequent post requests. An attacker could use this flaw to assemble an object that could permit execution of arbitrary code if the server enabled Apache Solr's Config API. (CVE-2017-12629)

For more information regarding CVE-2017-12629, see the article linked in the references section.

Solution

Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform7.1x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform7.1x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform7.1i386
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform7.0x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform7.0x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform7.0i386

Updated Packages

  • eap7-lucene-analyzers-common-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-queryparser-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-core-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-core-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-misc-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-analyzers-common-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-backward-codecs-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-solr-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.src.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-solr-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.src.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-queries-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-queryparser-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-facet-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-backward-codecs-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-queries-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-solr-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-misc-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-facet-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-lucene-solr-5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information