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RHEL 4 / 5 : jboss-seam2 (RHSA-2011:0461)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63978

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated jboss-seam2 packages that fix one security issue are now available for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The JBoss Seam 2 framework is an application framework for building web applications in Java.

It was found that JBoss Seam 2 did not properly block access to JBoss Expression Language (EL) constructs in page exception handling, allowing arbitrary Java methods to be executed. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted URL provided to certain applications based on the JBoss Seam 2 framework. Note: A properly configured and enabled Java Security Manager would prevent exploitation of this flaw. (CVE-2011-1484)

Red Hat would like to thank Martin Kouba from IT SYSTEMS a.s. for reporting this issue.

Users of jboss-seam2 should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue. The JBoss server process must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1484

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0461

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63978

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0461.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-seam2-docs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-seam2-runtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-seam2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-seam2-examples

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1484

IAVB: 2011-B-0086

RHSA: 2011:0461