[RHSA-2014:0565-01] Low: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.3 update

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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Low: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.3 update
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2014:0565-01
Product:           Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL:      https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0565.html
Issue date:        2014-05-27
CVE Names:         CVE-2014-0059 
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1. Summary:

Updated packages that provide Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
6.2.3 and fix one security issue, several bugs, and add various
enhancements are now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Low
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:

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

It was found that the security auditing functionality provided by PicketBox
and JBossSX, both security frameworks for Java applications, used a
world-readable audit.log file to record sensitive information. A local user
could possibly use this flaw to gain access to the sensitive information in
the audit.log file. (CVE-2014-0059)

This release serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform 6.2.2, and includes bug fixes and enhancements.
Documentation for these changes will be available shortly from the Red Hat
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.3 Release Notes, linked to in
the References.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2 as provided
from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to apply this update.
The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

3. Solution:

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must
log in to download the update). Before applying this update, back up your
existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and
deployed applications.

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

1063642 - CVE-2014-0059 JBossSX/PicketBox: World readable audit.log file

5. References:

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-0059.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=6.2.0
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/6.2/html-single/6.2.3_Release_Notes/index.html

6. Contact:

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

Copyright 2014 Red Hat, Inc.
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