(RHSA-2018:2742) Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.21 security update

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

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.21 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.20, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

• hibernate-validator: Privilege escalation when running under the security manager (CVE-2017-7536)

• guava: Unbounded memory allocation in AtomicDoubleArray and CompoundOrdering classes allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-10237)

• picketlink: The fix for CVE-2017-2582 breaks the feature of attribute replacement with system property in picketlink.xml (CVE-2017-2582)

• jbossweb: tomcat: A bug in the UTF-8 decoder can lead to DoS (CVE-2018-1336)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

The CVE-2017-2582 issue was discovered by Hynek Mlnarik (Red Hat) and the CVE-2017-7536 issue was discovered by Gunnar Morling (Red Hat).