RHEL 6 : JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3 on RHEL 6 (Important) (RHSA-2016:2640)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 112249

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:2640 advisory.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is an application server that serves as a middleware platform and is built on open standards and compliant with the Java EE 7 specification.

This release serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.2. It includes bug fixes and enhancements. Refer to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3 Release Notes linked to in the References section for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

* It was discovered that a long URL sent to EAP 7 Server operating as a reverse proxy with default buffer sizes causes a Denial of Service. (CVE-2016-7046)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 112249

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-2640.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/4/2018

Updated: 11/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7046

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-xerces-j2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-remoting, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-entitymanager, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-infinispan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-modules, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-undertow, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-envers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-javadocs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-java8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-xnio-base

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7046

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2016:2640

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