It was discovered that EAP packages in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux use incorrect permissions for /etc/sysconfig/jbossas configuration files. The file is writable to jboss group (root:jboss, 664). On systems using classic /etc/init.d init scripts (i.e. on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and earlier), the file is sourced by the jboss init script and its content executed with root privileges when jboss service is started, stopped, or restarted.

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 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.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.13, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es) :

* It was discovered that EAP packages in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux use incorrect permissions for /etc/sysconfig/jbossas configuration files. The file is writable to jboss group (root:jboss, 664). On systems using classic /etc/init.d init scripts (i.e. on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and earlier), the file is sourced by the jboss init script and its content executed with root privileges when jboss service is started, stopped, or restarted. (CVE-2016-8657)

* It was discovered that a programming error in the processing of HTTPS requests in the Apache Tomcat servlet and JSP engine may result in denial of service via an infinite loop. (CVE-2017-6056)

* It was found that GZIPInterceptor is enabled when not necessarily required in RESTEasy. An attacker could use this flaw to launch a Denial of Service attack. (CVE-2016-6346)

Red Hat would like to thank Mikhail Egorov (Odin) for reporting the CVE-2016-6346 issue.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1609 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation     (CVE-2016-8656)

    * jboss: jbossas writable config files allow privilege escalation (CVE-2016-8657)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0827 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss     Application Server 7.

    This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.13, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are     documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

    Security Fix(es):

    * It was discovered that EAP packages in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux use incorrect     permissions for /etc/sysconfig/jbossas configuration files. The file is writable to jboss group     (root:jboss, 664). On systems using classic /etc/init.d init scripts (i.e. on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     and earlier), the file is sourced by the jboss init script and its content executed with root privileges     when jboss service is started, stopped, or restarted. (CVE-2016-8657)

    * It was discovered that a programming error in the processing of HTTPS requests in the Apache Tomcat     servlet and JSP engine may result in denial of service via an infinite loop. (CVE-2017-6056)

    * It was found that GZIPInterceptor is enabled when not necessarily required in RESTEasy. An attacker     could use this flaw to launch a Denial of Service attack. (CVE-2016-6346)

    Red Hat would like to thank Mikhail Egorov (Odin) for reporting the     CVE-2016-6346 issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0826 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss     Application Server 7.

    This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.13, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are     documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

    Security Fix(es):

    * It was discovered that EAP packages in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux use incorrect     permissions for /etc/sysconfig/jbossas configuration files. The file is writable to jboss group     (root:jboss, 664). On systems using classic /etc/init.d init scripts (i.e. on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     and earlier), the file is sourced by the jboss init script and its content executed with root privileges     when jboss service is started, stopped, or restarted. (CVE-2016-8657)

    * It was discovered that a programming error in the processing of HTTPS requests in the Apache Tomcat     servlet and JSP engine may result in denial of service via an infinite loop. (CVE-2017-6056)

    * It was found that GZIPInterceptor is enabled when not necessarily required in RESTEasy. An attacker     could use this flaw to launch a Denial of Service attack. (CVE-2016-6346)

    Red Hat would like to thank Mikhail Egorov (Odin) for reporting the     CVE-2016-6346 issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update for jboss-ec2-eap is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6.

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.

The jboss-ec2-eap packages provide scripts for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

With this update, the jboss-ec2-eap package has been updated to ensure compatibility with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14.

Security Fix(es) :

* It was discovered that EAP packages in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux use incorrect permissions for /etc/sysconfig/jbossas configuration files. The file is writable to jboss group (root:jboss, 664). On systems using classic /etc/init.d init scripts (i.e. on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and earlier), the file is sourced by the jboss init script and its content executed with root privileges when jboss service is started, stopped, or restarted. (CVE-2016-8657)

* It was discovered that a programming error in the processing of HTTPS requests in the Apache Tomcat servlet and JSP engine may result in denial of service via an infinite loop. (CVE-2017-6056)

* It was found that GZIPInterceptor is enabled when not necessarily required in RESTEasy. An attacker could use this flaw to launch a Denial of Service attack. (CVE-2016-6346)

Red Hat would like to thank Mikhail Egorov (Odin) for reporting the CVE-2016-6346 issue.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
112253	RHEL 7 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2017:0828)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
109991	RHEL 5 / 6 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (RHSA-2018:1609)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
97933	RHEL 6 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14 update on RHEL 6 (Important) (RHSA-2017:0827)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
97932	RHEL 5 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14 update on RHEL 5 (Important) (RHSA-2017:0826)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
97909	RHEL 6 : jboss-ec2-eap (RHSA-2017:0829)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high

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