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RHEL 5 / 6 : jbossweb (RHSA-2012:0074)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64022

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0074 advisory.

 - tomcat: Multiple weaknesses in HTTP DIGEST authentication (CVE-2011-1184, CVE-2011-5062, CVE-2011-5063, CVE-2011-5064)

 - tomcat: security manager restrictions bypass (CVE-2011-2526)

 - JBoss Web remote denial of service when surrogate pair character is placed at buffer boundary (CVE-2011-4610)

 - tomcat: hash table collisions CPU usage DoS (oCERT-2011-003) (CVE-2011-4858)

 - tomcat: large number of parameters DoS (CVE-2012-0022)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL jbossweb package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:0074.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?582f7a88

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0074

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720948

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741401

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750521

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767871

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783359

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64022

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0074.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 4/27/2024

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: 5.8

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-5062

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossweb-jsp-2.1-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossweb-servlet-2.5-api, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossweb-el-1.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossweb-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossweb

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: 1/31/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1184, CVE-2011-2526, CVE-2011-4610, CVE-2011-4858, CVE-2011-5062, CVE-2011-5063, CVE-2011-5064, CVE-2012-0022

RHSA: 2012:0074