Issued:

2017-12-07

Updated:

2017-12-07

RHSA-2017:3400 - Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 based on the JBoss Application Server.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for log4j package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0.

Security Fix(es):

• It was found that when using remote logging with log4j socket server the log4j server would deserialize any log event received via TCP or UDP. An attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted log event that, during deserialization, would execute arbitrary code in the context of the logger application. (CVE-2017-5645)

Solution

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

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).

Affected Products

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1443635

CVEs

• CVE-2017-5645
• CVE-2019-17571

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• This content is not included.This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=5.2.0
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/

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.