RHSA-2017:0829: Important: jboss-ec2-eap security, bug fix, and enhancement update

First published: Wed Mar 22 2017(Updated: )

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).<br>With this update, the jboss-ec2-eap package has been updated to ensure compatibility with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> It was discovered that EAP packages in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux use incorrect permissions for /etc/sysconfig/jbossas configuration files. The file is writable to jboss group (root:jboss, 664). On systems using classic /etc/init.d init scripts (i.e. on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and earlier), the file is sourced by the jboss init script and its content executed with root privileges when jboss service is started, stopped, or restarted. (CVE-2016-8657)</li> <li> It was discovered that a programming error in the processing of HTTPS requests in the Apache Tomcat servlet and JSP engine may result in denial of service via an infinite loop. (CVE-2017-6056)</li> <li> It was found that GZIPInterceptor is enabled when not necessarily required in RESTEasy. An attacker could use this flaw to launch a Denial of Service attack. (CVE-2016-6346)</li> Red Hat would like to thank Mikhail Egorov (Odin) for reporting the<br>CVE-2016-6346 issue.

Never miss a vulnerability like this again

Sign up to SecAlerts for real-time vulnerability data matched to your software, aggregated from hundreds of sources.

Read MoreStart Free Trial

• collector/redhat-errata
• anchor-id/RHSA-2017:0829
• agent/severity
• agent/references
• agent/title
• agent/tags
• agent/type
• agent/event
• agent/description
• agent/remedy
• agent/softwarecombine
• agent/first-publish-date
• agent/last-modified-date
• package-manager/redhat