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Bug 1400344 - (CVE-2016-8656) CVE-2016-8656 jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation
CVE-2016-8656 jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script...
Status: ON_QA
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=important,public=20160915,repo...
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Depends On: 1402974 1402973 1402975
Blocks: 1399004 1424497 1520314
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Reported: 2016-11-30 18:22 EST by Bharti Kundal
Modified: 2018-05-22 11:17 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: jbossas 5.2.0-23, jbossas 6.4.13, jbossas 7.0.5
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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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Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0244 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update 2017-02-02 20:39:38 EST
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0245 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update 2017-02-02 20:36:51 EST
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0246 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update 2017-02-02 20:33:58 EST
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0250 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: jboss-ec2-eap security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-02-02 21:03:53 EST
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0831 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.5 on RHEL 6 2017-03-22 17:52:40 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0832 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.5 on RHEL 7 2017-03-22 17:51:39 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0834 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: jboss-ec2-eap package for EAP 7.0.5 2017-03-22 18:01:35 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:3454 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.0 security update 2017-12-13 17:48:09 EST
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:3455 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.0 security update 2017-12-13 17:57:25 EST
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:3458 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: eap7-jboss-ec2-eap security update 2017-12-13 18:26:13 EST
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:1609 None None None 2018-05-17 14:26 EDT

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Description Bharti Kundal 2016-11-30 18:22:23 EST
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 15:24:33 EST
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 15:45:16 EST
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 15:46:29 EST
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 15:47:36 EST
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 16:05:12 EST
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 13:54:00 EDT
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 13:54:24 EDT
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 14:01:52 EDT
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 11:48:14 EDT
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 13:26:36 EST
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 13:42:34 EST
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 13:49:02 EST
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 14:26:52 EDT
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

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