[RHSA-2017:1552-01] Moderate: jboss-ec2-eap security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Moderate: jboss-ec2-eap security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2017:1552-01
Product:           Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL:      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1552
Issue date:        2017-06-20
CVE Names:         CVE-2016-5018 CVE-2016-6796 CVE-2017-2595 
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1. Summary:

An update for jboss-ec2-eap is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform 6.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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. Relevant releases/architectures:

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

3. Description:

The jboss-ec2-eap packages provide scripts for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2).

With this update, the jboss-ec2-eap package has been updated to ensure
compatibility with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.16.

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)

4. Solution:

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

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

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

5. 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

6. Package List:

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 Server:

Source:
jboss-ec2-eap-7.5.16-1.Final_redhat_1.ep6.el6.src.rpm

noarch:
jboss-ec2-eap-7.5.16-1.Final_redhat_1.ep6.el6.noarch.rpm
jboss-ec2-eap-samples-7.5.16-1.Final_redhat_1.ep6.el6.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-2016-5018
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6796
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2595
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-jboss-enterprise-application-platform/?version=6.4
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. 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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