RHSA-2014:1011: resteasy-base security update
Description
RESTEasy contains a JBoss project that provides frameworks to help buildRESTful Web Services and RESTful Java applications. It is a fully certifiedand portable implementation of the JAX-RS specification.It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-0818 was incomplete: externalparameter entities were not disabled when theresteasy.document.expand.entity.references parameter was set to false.A remote attacker able to send XML requests to a RESTEasy endpoint coulduse this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the applicationserver, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks.(CVE-2014-3490)This issue was discovered by David Jorm of Red Hat Product Security.All resteasy-base users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-resteasy-base
- redhat-upgrade-resteasy-base-atom-provider
- redhat-upgrade-resteasy-base-jackson-provider
- redhat-upgrade-resteasy-base-javadoc
- redhat-upgrade-resteasy-base-jaxb-provider
- redhat-upgrade-resteasy-base-jaxrs
- redhat-upgrade-resteasy-base-jaxrs-all
- redhat-upgrade-resteasy-base-jaxrs-api
- redhat-upgrade-resteasy-base-jettison-provider
- redhat-upgrade-resteasy-base-providers-pom
- redhat-upgrade-resteasy-base-tjws
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