[RHSA-2017:3124-01] Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 security update

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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 security update
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2017:3124-01
Product:           Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL:      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3124
Issue date:        2017-11-06
CVE Names:         CVE-2017-12629 
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1. Summary:

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform 7.

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. Description:

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

This asynchronous patch is a security update for lucene package in Red Hat
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.8

Security Fix(es):

* It was found that Apache Lucene would accept an object from an
unauthenticated user that could be manipulated through subsequent post
requests. An attacker could use this flaw to assemble an object that could
permit execution of arbitrary code if the server enabled Apache Solr's
Config API. (CVE-2017-12629)

For more information regarding CVE-2017-12629, see the article linked in
the references section.

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/):

1501529 - CVE-2017-12629 Solr: Code execution via entity expansion

5. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12629
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/CVE-2017-12629
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=7.0
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/jboss-enterprise-application-platform/

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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