Issued:
2019-01-22
Updated:
2019-01-22

RHSA-2019:0139 - Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.0 security update

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.0 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.0 is now available.

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.

Description

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

This release serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. Refer to the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.0 Release Notes for information on the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

  • picketlink: SAML request parser replaces special strings with system properties (CVE-2017-2582)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

The CVE-2017-2582 issue was discovered by Hynek Mlnarik (Red Hat).

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).

The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
JBoss Enterprise Application PlatformText-Only Advisoriesx86_64

Fixes

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