7.5 - RHSA-2019:0450

Problem Description:

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL 6 and Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this release as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), the PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native library.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 Service Pack 2 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 Service Pack 1, and includes bug fixes, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

* tomcat: Insecure defaults in CORS filter enable 'supportsCredentials' for all origins (CVE-2018-8014) * tomcat: host name verification missing in WebSocket client (CVE-2018-8034)

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

3. Solution:

Before applying the update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Web Server installation (including all applications and configuration files).

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1579611 - CVE-2018-8014 tomcat: Insecure defaults in CORS filter enable 'supportsCredentials' for all origins 1607580 - CVE-2018-8034 tomcat: host name verification missing in WebSocket client

5. JIRA issues fixed (https://issues.jboss.org/):

JWS-1069 - [ASF BZ 62258] Avoid error pages in some cases JWS-1070 - Unexpected handshake failures with OpenSSL JWS-1071 - Java 11 support for annotation scanning JWS-1072 - Missing handshake timeouts for NIO 2 and NIO 2 timeout improvements JWS-1073 - NIO 2 fixes affecting IO API reliability JWS-1074 - [ASF BZ 62476] Use GMT in expires date format JWS-1080 - Error page processing regression JWS-1122 - HTTP/2 async output reliability fixes and refactorings JWS-1123 - Tomcat embedded: Different default location for natives lookup JWS-1153 - Body text property replacement fails JWS-1160 - [ASF BZ 62803] Tomcat Host Manager incorrectly saves connector with SSL configuration JWS-1164 - Add some substitution recursive parsing for rewrite JWS-1281 - [ASF BZ 62892] tomcat-native memory leak when using Mutual authentication + OCSP JWS-1286 - [ASF BZ 62899] HTTP/2 non blocking Servlet API reliability fixes JWS-1290 - Several pom.xml files are invalid according to Maven POM XSD JWS-849 - Hibernate in maven repo could be missing artifacts present in hibernate zip