[RHSA-2016:1330-01] Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 security update

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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 security update
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2016:1330-01
Product:           Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL:      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1330
Issue date:        2016-06-23
CVE Names:         CVE-2016-2141 
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1. Summary:

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform from the Customer Portal.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat JBoss EAP 6.4 for RHEL 5 - noarch
Red Hat JBoss EAP 6.4 for RHEL 6 - noarch
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch

3. Description:

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java
applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for JGroups package in Red Hat
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 More information about this
vulnerability is available at: https://access.redhat.com/articles/2360521

Security Fix(es):

* It was found that JGroups did not require necessary headers for encrypt
and auth protocols from new nodes joining the cluster. An attacker could
use this flaw to bypass security restrictions, and use this vulnerability
to send and receive messages within the cluster, leading to information
disclosure, message spoofing, or further possible attacks. (CVE-2016-2141)

The CVE-2016-2141 issue was discovered by Dennis Reed (Red Hat).

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1313589 - CVE-2016-2141 Authorization bypass in JGroups
1343598 - RHEL6 RPMs: Upgrade jgroups to 3.2.16.Final-redhat-1
1343599 - RHEL5 RPMs: Upgrade jgroups to 3.2.16.Final-redhat-1
1343600 - RHEL7 RPMs: Upgrade jgroups to 3.2.16.Final-redhat-1

6. Package List:

Red Hat JBoss EAP 6.4 for RHEL 5:

Source:
jgroups-3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5.src.rpm

noarch:
jgroups-3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5.noarch.rpm

Red Hat JBoss EAP 6.4 for RHEL 6:

Source:
jgroups-3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6.src.rpm

noarch:
jgroups-3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6.noarch.rpm

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 7 Server:

Source:
jgroups-3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7.src.rpm

noarch:
jgroups-3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7.noarch.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security.  Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2141
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-jboss-enterprise-application-platform/?version=6.4
https://access.redhat.com/articles/2360521

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert at redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
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