4.6 - RHSA-2008:0510

Problem Description:

Red Hat Application Stack v1.3 is now available. This update fixes a security issue and adds several enhancements.

This updated has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux AS (v.4) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux ES (v.4) - i386, x86_64

3. Description:

The Red Hat Application Stack is an integrated open source application stack, and includes JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP).

Starting with this update, JBoss EAP is no longer provided via the Application Stack channels. Instead, all Application Stack customers are automatically entitled to the JBoss EAP channels. This ensures all users have immediate access to JBoss EAP packages when they are released, ensuring lesser wait for security and critical patches.

As a result, you must MANUALLY subscribe to the appropriate JBoss EAP channel, as all further JBoss EAP updates will only go to that channel.

This update also entitles all customers to the JBoss EAP 4.3.0 channels. Users receive support for JBoss EAP 4.3.0 if they choose to install it. Important: downgrading from JBoss EAP 4.3.0 to 4.2.0 is unsupported.

MySQL was updated to version 5.0.50sp1a, fixing the following security issue:

MySQL did not correctly check directories used as arguments for the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY directives. Using this flaw, an authenticated attacker could elevate their access privileges to tables created by other database users. Note: this attack does not work on existing tables. An attacker can only elevate their access to another user's tables as the tables are created. As well, the names of these created tables need to be predicted correctly for this attack to succeed. (CVE-2008-2079)

The following packages are updated:

* httpd to 2.0.63 * mod_jk to 1.2.26 * the MySQL Connector/ODBC to 3.51.24r1071 * perl-DBD-MySQL to 4.006 * perl-DBI to 1.604 * postgresqlclient7 to 7.4.19 * postgresql-jdbc to 8.1.412 * unixODBC to 2.2.12

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

445222 - CVE-2008-2079 mysql: privilege escalation via DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY directives