Bug 1400344 (CVE-2016-8656)

Summary: CVE-2016-8656 jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Bharti Kundal <bkundal>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: asoldano, bbaranow, bmaxwell, brian.stansberry, cdewolf, chazlett, csutherl, dandread, darran.lofthouse, dosoudil, huwang, iweiss, jawilson, jkurik, jperkins, jshepherd, krathod, kwills, lgao, msochure, msvehla, myarboro, nwallace, pcheung, pgier, pmackay, psakar, pslavice, psotirop, rguimara, rnetuka, rsvoboda, smaestri, tom.jenkinson, twalsh, vtunka
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: jbossas 5.2.0-23, jbossas 6.4.13, jbossas 7.0.5 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation.
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Last Closed: 2019-07-12 13:04:26 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1402973, 1402974, 1402975    
Bug Blocks: 1399004, 1424497, 1520314    

Description Bharti Kundal 2016-11-30 23:22:23 UTC
It was reported that the jbossas init script performed unsafe file handling, which could result in local privilege escalation.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-02 20:24:33 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:



Via RHSA-2017:0247 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0247.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-02 20:45:16 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 5

Via RHSA-2017:0246 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0246.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-02 20:46:29 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:0245 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0245.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-02 20:47:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:0244 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0244.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-02 21:05:12 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:0250 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0250.html

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-22 17:54:00 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:0832 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-22 17:54:24 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:0831 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-22 18:01:52 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6
  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:0834 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html

Comment 17 Bharti Kundal 2017-05-08 15:48:14 UTC
Statement:

It was found that a variant of the Tomcat CVE-2016-1240 exploit is also applicable to Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5, 6, and 7. CVE-2016-8656 addresses these problems with JBoss EAP. The issue is now corrected in the various versions of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform including EAP 6.4.13 and EAP 7.0.5. For further information please refer to https://access.redhat.com/articles/3016681

Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2017-12-13 18:26:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:3454 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454

Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2017-12-13 18:42:34 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:3455 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455

Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2017-12-13 18:49:02 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 7
  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:3458 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458

Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-17 18:26:52 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5
  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2018:1609 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1609

Comment 23 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-07-12 13:04:26 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-8656