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Posted on 12 September 2018
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1.0 Service Pack 5 security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2700-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2700
Issue date: 2018-09-12
CVE Names: CVE-2018-1336
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1. Summary:
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this release 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 Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of
components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache
HTTP Server, the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, Apache Tomcat Connector
(mod_jk), JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), Hibernate, and the Tomcat
Native library.
This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 Service Pack 5 serves as a
replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1, and includes bug fixes, which
are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.
Security Fix(es):
* 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, 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/):
1607591 - CVE-2018-1336 tomcat: A bug in the UTF-8 decoder can lead to DoS
5. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1336
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=webserver&downloadType=securityPatches&version=3.1
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_web_server/3.1/html-single/red_hat_jboss_web_server_3.1_service_pack_5_release_notes/index
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.
