Issued:

2023-09-04

Updated:

2023-09-04

RHSA-2023:4910 - Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.4 release and security update

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.4 release and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.4 zip release is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, and Windows Server.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this release 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 Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), the PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native library.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.4 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.3. This release includes bug fixes, enhancements and component upgrades, which are documented in the Release Notes, linked to in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

• apr: integer overflow/wraparound in apr_encode (CVE-2022-24963)

• apr: Windows out-of-bounds write in apr_socket_sendv function (CVE-2022-28331)

• tomcat: Apache Commons FileUpload: FileUpload DoS with excessive parts (CVE-2023-24998)

• jws5-tomcat: tomcat: not including the secure attribute causes information disclosure (CVE-2023-28708)

• tomcat: Fix for CVE-2023-24998 was incomplete (CVE-2023-28709)

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

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

Fixes

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• This content is not included.BZ - 2172298
• This content is not included.BZ - 2172556
• This content is not included.BZ - 2180856
• This content is not included.BZ - 2210321

CVEs

• CVE-2022-24963
• CVE-2022-28331
• CVE-2023-24998
• CVE-2023-28708
• CVE-2023-28709

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• This content is not included.This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=securityPatches&product=webserver&version=5.7

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.