Issued:
2018-04-03
Updated:
2018-04-03

RHSA-2018:0628 - Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for 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 WildFly.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for slf4j package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.

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, 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

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

Updated Packages

  • eap7-slf4j-1.7.22-3.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-slf4j-1.7.22-3.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.src.rpm
  • eap7-slf4j-api-1.7.22-3.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-slf4j-api-1.7.22-3.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-slf4j-ext-1.7.22-3.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.22-3.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-slf4j-ext-1.7.22-3.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.22-3.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-slf4j-1.7.22-3.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.src.rpm
  • eap7-slf4j-1.7.22-3.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information