(RHSA-2013:0569) Important: JBoss Web Services security update

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is the next-generation ESB and business
process automation infrastructure. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform is the
open source implementation of the Java EE suite of services and Portal
services running atop JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

An attack technique was found against the W3C XML Encryption Standard when
block ciphers were used in cipher-block chaining (CBC) mode. A remote
attacker could use this flaw to conduct chosen-ciphertext attacks, leading
to the recovery of the entire plain text of a particular cryptogram by
examining the differences between SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
responses sent from JBoss Web Services. (CVE-2011-1096)

Red Hat would like to thank Juraj Somorovsky of Ruhr-University Bochum for
reporting this issue.

Note: Manual action is required to apply this update. The CVE-2011-1096
issue is an attack on the WS-Security standard itself. Using new
Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) based algorithms for WS-Security encryption is
the W3C suggested way of dealing with this issue. To use GCM algorithms in
your application, update the encrypt element of all jboss-ws-security
configuration to specify a GCM algorithm. The following is an example
directive:

encrypt type=“x509v3” algorithm=“aes-128-gcm” alias=“wsse”

Warning: Before applying this update, back up your JBoss installation,
including any databases, database settings, applications, configuration
files, and so on.

All users of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 CP05 and JBoss Enterprise
Portal Platform 4.3 CP07 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are
advised to apply this update.