RHEL 5 / 6 : jbossws-common (RHSA-2011:1303)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210144

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for jbossws-common.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1303 advisory.

The jbossws-common package provides JBoss Web Services Native, a web service framework included as part of JBoss Enterprise Web Platform. It implements the JAX-WS specification.

It was found that JBoss Web Services Native did not properly protect against recursive entity resolution when processing Document Type Definitions (DTD). A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by sending a specially-crafted HTTP POST request to a deployed web service, causing excessive CPU and memory consumption on the system hosting that service. If the attack is repeated to consume all available network sockets, the server will become unavailable. This flaw did not affect systems using JBoss Web Services CXF (provided by jbossas-ws-cxf-ewp). (CVE-2011-1483)

Warning: Before applying this update, please back up your JBoss Enterprise Web Platform's jboss-as-web/server/[PROFILE]/deploy/ directory, along with all other customized configuration files.

Users of JBoss Web Services Native should upgrade to this updated package, which corrects this issue. The JBoss server process must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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 RHEL jbossws-common package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:1303.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210144

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1303.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2024

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1483

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:jbossws-common, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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: 9/15/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1483

IAVB: 2011-B-0119

RHSA: 2011:1303

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