RHSA-2018:0630: Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 security update

First published: Tue Apr 03 2018(Updated: )

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java<br>applications based on the JBoss Application Server.<br>This asynchronous patch is a security update for slf4j package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> An XML deserialization vulnerability was discovered in slf4j's EventData which accepts xml serialized string and can lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2018-8088)</li> The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) is a simple facade for various logging APIs allowing the end-user to plug in the desired implementation at deployment time. SLF4J also allows for a gradual migration path away from Jakarta Commons Logging (JCL).<br>Red Hat would like to thank Chris McCown for reporting CVE-2018-8088.

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