RHEL 8 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.8 Security update (Low) (RHSA-2022:8791)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 168410

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8791 advisory.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime. This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.8 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.7, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.8 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

* undertow: DoS can be achieved as Undertow server waits for the LAST_CHUNK forever for EJB invocations (CVE-2022-2764)

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 eap7-undertow package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 168410

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8791.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/6/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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-undertow, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 12/5/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2764

RHSA: 2022:8791

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