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Posted on 03 April 2018
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0629-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0629
Issue date: 2018-04-03
CVE Names: CVE-2018-8088
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1. Summary:
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform 7.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. 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 WildFly.
This asynchronous patch is a security update for slf4j package in Red Hat
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.
Security Fix(es):
* 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)
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).
Red Hat would like to thank Chris McCown for reporting CVE-2018-8088.
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).
The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.
4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1548909 - CVE-2018-8088 slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution
5. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8088
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/
https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=7.1
6. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
