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Posted on 21 January 2022
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.6 release and security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0219-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss AMQ
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0219
Issue date: 2022-01-20
CVE Names: CVE-2021-38153 CVE-2021-45105
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1. Summary:
Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.6 is now available from the Red Hat Customer
Portal.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update 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 AMQ Streams, based on the Apache Kafka project, offers a
distributed backbone that allows microservices and other applications to
share data with extremely high throughput and extremely low latency.
This release of Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.6 serves as a replacement for Red
Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.5, and includes security and bug fixes, and
enhancements. For further information, refer to the release notes linked to
in the References section.
Security Fix(es):
* Kafka: Timing Attack Vulnerability for Apache Kafka Connect and Clients
(CVE-2021-38153)
* log4j-core: DoS in log4j 2.x with Thread Context Map (MDC) input data
contains a recursive lookup and context lookup pattern (CVE-2021-45105)
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 installation, including
all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings, and
so on.
The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must
log in to download the update).
4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2009041 - CVE-2021-38153 Kafka: Timing Attack Vulnerability for Apache Kafka Connect and Clients
2034067 - CVE-2021-45105 log4j-core: DoS in log4j 2.x with Thread Context Map (MDC) input data contains a recursive lookup and context lookup pattern
5. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-38153
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45105
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=distributions&product=jboss.amq.streams&version=1.6.6
6. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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