[RHSA-2017:1551-01] Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update

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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2017:1551-01
Product:           Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL:      https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1551.html
Issue date:        2017-06-20
CVE Names:         CVE-2016-5018 CVE-2016-6796 CVE-2017-2595 
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1. Summary:

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. 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. Description:

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

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.16 serves
as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.15,
and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the
Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

* It was found that the log file viewer in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise
Application 6 and 7 allows arbitrary file read to authenticated user via
path traversal. (CVE-2017-2595)

* It was discovered that a malicious web application could bypass a
configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible
to web applications. (CVE-2016-5018)

* It was discovered that a malicious web application could bypass a
configured SecurityManager via manipulation of the configuration parameters
for the JSP Servlet. (CVE-2016-6796)

3. Solution:

Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must
log in to download the update).

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

1390515 - CVE-2016-6796 tomcat: security manager bypass via JSP Servlet config parameters
1390525 - CVE-2016-5018 tomcat: security manager bypass via IntrospectHelper utility function
1413028 - CVE-2017-2595 wildfly: Arbitrary file read via path traversal

5. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5018
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6796
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2595
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-jboss-enterprise-application-platform/?version=6.4
https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=6.4

6. Contact:

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

Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
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