[RHSA-2011:0463-01] Important: JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3.0.CP04 and 5.1.0 security update

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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Important: JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3.0.CP04 and 5.1.0 security update
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2011:0463-01
Product:           JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Advisory URL:      https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0463.html
Issue date:        2011-04-20
CVE Names:         CVE-2011-1484 
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1. Summary:

An updated jboss-seam.jar file for JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3.0.CP04
and 5.1.0 that fixes one security issue is now available from the Red Hat
Customer Portal.

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.

2. Description:

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is the next-generation ESB and business
process automation infrastructure. JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform allows IT
to leverage existing (MoM and EAI), modern (SOA and BPM-Rules), and future
(EDA and CEP) integration methodologies to dramatically improve business
process execution speed and quality.

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.

All users of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3.0.CP04 and 5.1.0 as provided
from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to install this update.

3. Solution:

The References section of this erratum contains download links (you must
log in to download the updated file). Before applying the update, backup
your existing JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform installation (including its
databases, applications, configuration files, and so on).

Important: JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3.0.CP04 ships with both the
JBoss Seam and JBoss Seam 2 frameworks. Ensure you only replace version
2 with the updated jboss-seam.jar file.

The JBoss Application Server process must be restarted for the update to
take effect.

4. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

692421 - CVE-2011-1484 JBoss Seam privilege escalation caused by EL interpolation in FacesMessages

5. References:

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2011-1484.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=soaplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=4.3.0.GA_CP04
https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=soaplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=5.1.0+GA

6. Contact:

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

Copyright 2011 Red Hat, Inc.
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