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RHEL 4 / 5 : jbossws-common (RHSA-2011:1306)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64001

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated jbossws-common package that fixes one security issue is now available for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3 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 jbossws-common package provides JBoss Web Services Native, a web service framework included as part of JBoss Enterprise Application 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.
(CVE-2011-1483)

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

Users of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 should upgrade to this updated package, which corrects this issue. The JBoss server process must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected jbossws-common package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1483

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1306

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64001

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1306.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossws-common, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1483

BID: 49654

IAVB: 2011-B-0119

RHSA: 2011:1306