RHSA-2016:0598

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2016-04-05 20:37 - Updated: 2026-11-07 05:11
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: jboss-ec2-eap security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Topic: A jboss-ec2-eap update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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.
Details: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7. The jboss-ec2-eap packages provide scripts for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). With this update, the packages have been updated to ensure compatibility with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.7. Security Fix(es): * A read-timeout flaw was found in the HTTPS NIO Connector handling of SSL handshakes. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could create a socket and cause a thread to remain occupied indefinitely so long as the socket remained open (denial of service). (CVE-2016-2094) * It was found that Tomcat would keep connections open after processing requests with a large enough request body. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to exhaust the pool of available connections and preventing further, legitimate connections to the Tomcat server to be made. (CVE-2014-0230) The CVE-2016-2094 issue was discovered by Aaron Ogburn of Red Hat.
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CVE-2014-0230

It was found that Tomcat would keep connections open after processing requests with a large enough request body. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to exhaust the pool of available connections and preventing further, legitimate connections to the Tomcat server to be made.

5.0 ()
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: 6Server-JBEAP-6.4:jboss-ec2-eap-0:7.5.7-2.Final_redhat_3.ep6.el6.noarch —
Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 6Server-JBEAP-6.4:jboss-ec2-eap-0:7.5.7-2.Final_redhat_3.ep6.el6.src —
Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 6Server-JBEAP-6.4:jboss-ec2-eap-samples-0:7.5.7-2.Final_redhat_3.ep6.el6.noarch —
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Low
CVE-2016-2094

A read-timeout flaw was found in the HTTPS NIO Connector handling of SSL handshakes. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could create a socket and cause a thread to remain occupied indefinitely so long as the socket remained open (denial of service).

5.0 ()
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-358 - Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard
Affected products
Fixed 3 products, the same list as for CVE-2014-0230
Threats
Impact Moderate
References
Acknowledgments
Red Hat Aaron Ogburn
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Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

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