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RHEL 7 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2017:0832)

high Nessus Plugin ID 112255

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 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 7.0.5 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.4, 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 the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation.
(CVE-2016-8656)

* It was found that JBoss EAP 7 Header Cache was inefficient. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service attack.
(CVE-2016-9589)

Red Hat would like to thank Gabriel Lavoie (Halogen Software) for reporting CVE-2016-9589.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0832

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-8656

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9589

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 112255

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-0832.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2018

Updated: 8/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8656

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-compensations, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-yaml-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-idm-simple-schema, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-idm-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-infinispan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-bindings, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jaxb-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-cdi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-jbosstxbridge, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-spring, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-infinispan-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-jms-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-dto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-web-console-eap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-java8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jackson2-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-json-p-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-jbossxts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-selector, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-javadocs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-idm-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jettison-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-infinispan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-restat-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-hornetq-protocol, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-service-extensions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-restat-bridge, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-jts-idlj, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jsapi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-commons, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-core-client, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-entitymanager, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-envers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-infinispan-cachestore-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-jms-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-crypto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-atom-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-wildfly8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-multipart-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jackson-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-infinispan-client-hotrod, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-restat-util, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-hqclient-protocol, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-xnio-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-infinispan-commons, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-async-http-servlet-3.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-native, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-ra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-jts-integration, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jaxrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-xml-security, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-all, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-txframework, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-infinispan-cachestore-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-msc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-validator-provider-11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-artemis-native, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-artemis-native-wildfly, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-federation, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-journal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-restat-integration, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jose-jwt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-undertow

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: 3/22/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8656, CVE-2016-9589

RHSA: 2017:0832