Bug 1372120 (CVE-2016-6346) - CVE-2016-6346 RESTEasy: Abuse of GZIPInterceptor in RESTEasy can lead to denial of service attack
Summary: CVE-2016-6346 RESTEasy: Abuse of GZIPInterceptor in RESTEasy can lead to deni...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-6346
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1372122 1372592 1372593 1372848 1372849 1456313 1456314 1456315 1456316 1456317 1471275 1471276 1914370
Blocks: 1371804 1372141 1372565 1372568 1372571 1460775 1527613
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Reported: 2016-09-01 00:44 UTC by Jason Shepherd
Modified: 2021-12-14 18:47 UTC (History)
100 users (show)

Fixed In Version: resteasy 3.1.0.CR1, resteasy 3.0.20.Final
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It was found that GZIPInterceptor is enabled when not necessarily required in RESTEasy. An attacker could use this flaw to launch a Denial of Service attack.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:58:00 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0517 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update 2017-05-03 01:58:28 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0826 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14 update on RHEL 5 2017-03-22 20:46:23 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0827 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14 update on RHEL 6 2017-03-22 20:43:37 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0828 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14 update on RHEL 7 2017-03-22 20:40:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0829 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: jboss-ec2-eap security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-03-22 21:11:17 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1675 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite security update 2017-07-04 22:00:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1676 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Red Hat JBoss BRMS security update 2017-07-04 22:00:02 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0002 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.9 security update on RHEL 6 2018-01-03 15:30:20 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0003 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.9 security update 2018-01-03 15:20:33 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0004 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.9 security update on RHEL 7 2018-01-03 15:31:14 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0005 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: eap7-jboss-ec2-eap security update 2018-01-03 15:49:39 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2143 0 None None None 2018-07-05 15:29:04 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:1222 0 None None None 2019-05-14 12:36:09 UTC

Description Jason Shepherd 2016-09-01 00:44:29 UTC 
It was found that GZIPInterceptor is enabled when not necessarily required in RESTEasy. An attacker could use this flaw to launch a Denial of Service attack.
Comment 1 Jason Shepherd 2016-09-01 00:45:21 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Mikhail Egorov (Odin)
Comment 2 Jason Shepherd 2016-09-01 00:50:37 UTC 
Created resteasy tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1372122]
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-14 17:32:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14 

Via RHSA-2017:0517 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0517.html
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-22 16:49:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:0828 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0828.html
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-22 16:50:39 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:0827 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0827.html
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-22 16:51:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 5

Via RHSA-2017:0826 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0826.html
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-22 17:11:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:0829 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0829.html
Comment 19 Jason Shepherd 2017-05-29 00:42:17 UTC 
Created resteasy tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1456313]
Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2017-07-04 18:00:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss BRMS

Via RHSA-2017:1676 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1676
Comment 24 errata-xmlrpc 2017-07-04 18:01:51 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite

Via RHSA-2017:1675 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1675
Comment 25 Kurt Seifried 2017-07-14 21:15:49 UTC 
Created resteasy tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1471275]
Comment 28 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-03 10:20:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Via RHSA-2018:0003 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0003
Comment 29 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-03 10:32:10 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2018:0002 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0002
Comment 30 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-03 10:34:28 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2018:0004 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0004
Comment 31 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-03 10:51:23 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2018:0005 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0005
Comment 33 errata-xmlrpc 2018-07-05 15:28:23 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Decision Manager

Via RHSA-2018:2143 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2143
Comment 34 errata-xmlrpc 2018-12-03 14:57:05 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Process Automation

Via RHSA-2017:1675 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1675
Comment 35 errata-xmlrpc 2018-12-03 14:57:32 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Decision Manager

Via RHSA-2017:1676 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1676
Comment 37 Richard Maciel Costa 2019-05-03 18:23:50 UTC 
Statement:

This issue was fixed in EAP 7.1.0, but was not fixed in 7.0.7
On Red Hat Satellite 6.5 this issue is fixed through the candlepin package update (candlepin 2.5.8), which contains a non-vulnerable version of RESTEasy.
Comment 38 errata-xmlrpc 2019-05-14 12:36:06 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.5 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2019:1222 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1222
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