Issued:

2018-04-03

Updated:

2018-04-03

RHSA-2018:0627 - Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 slf4j package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.

Security Fix(es):

• An XML deserialization vulnerability was discovered in slf4j's EventData which accepts xml serialized string and can lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2018-8088)

The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) is a simple facade for various logging APIs allowing the end-user to plug in the desired implementation at deployment time. SLF4J also allows for a gradual migration path away from Jakarta Commons Logging (JCL).

Red Hat would like to thank Chris McCown for reporting CVE-2018-8088.

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

Updated Packages

• slf4j-eap6-1.7.2-14.redhat_4.1.ep6.el5.src.rpm
• slf4j-eap6-1.7.2-14.redhat_4.1.ep6.el6.noarch.rpm
• slf4j-1.7.2-14.redhat_4.1.ep6.el5.noarch.rpm
• slf4j-eap6-1.7.2-14.redhat_4.1.ep6.el5.noarch.rpm
• slf4j-eap6-1.7.2-14.redhat_4.1.ep6.el7.noarch.rpm
• slf4j-eap6-1.7.2-14.redhat_4.1.ep6.el7.src.rpm
• slf4j-eap6-1.7.2-14.redhat_4.1.ep6.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

• CVE-2018-8088

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/?version=6.4

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.