Issued:

2018-02-22

Updated:

2018-02-22

RHSA-2018:0342 - Important: rh-maven35-jackson-databind security update

Synopsis

Important: rh-maven35-jackson-databind security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for rh-maven35-jackson-databind is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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

The jackson-databind package provides general data-binding functionality for Jackson, which works on top of Jackson core streaming API.

Security Fix(es):

• A deserialization flaw was discovered in the jackson-databind which could allow an unauthenticated user to perform code execution by sending the maliciously crafted input to the readValue method of the ObjectMapper. (CVE-2017-7525)

• Further classes that an attacker could use to achieve code execution through deserialisation were discovered, and added to the blacklist introduced by CVE-2017-7525. (CVE-2017-15095, CVE-2017-17485)

Red Hat would like to thank Liao Xinxi (NSFOCUS) for reporting CVE-2017-7525 and CVE-2017-15095 and 0c0c0f from 360观星实验室 for reporting CVE-2017-17485.

Solution

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

Updated Packages

• rh-maven35-jackson-databind-2.7.6-2.4.el7.noarch.rpm
• rh-maven35-jackson-databind-2.7.6-2.4.el7.src.rpm
• rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc-2.7.6-2.4.el7.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1462702
• This content is not included.BZ - 1506612
• This content is not included.BZ - 1528565

CVEs

• CVE-2017-7525
• CVE-2017-15095
• CVE-2017-17485

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

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.