Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has acknowledged a vulnerability in multiple JBoss products, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Red Hat Multiple JBoss Products Web Services Native Denial of Service
Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46048
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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has acknowledged a vulnerability in multiple JBoss products,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within JBoss Web Services
Native when handling recursive entity resolution with embedded DTDs
(Document Type Definitions), which can be exploited to cause CPU
resource exhaustion by using a specially crafted POST HTTP request.
The vulnerability is reported in the following products (please see
vendor's advisories for details):
* JBoss Communications Platform 1.2.11
* JBoss Communications Platform 5.1.1
* JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2.0.CP09
* JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3.0
* JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1.1
* JBoss Enterprise BRMS Platform 5.1.0
* JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3.CP06
* JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.1.1
* JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.2.CP05 and 4.3.CP05
* JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1.0
* JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.1
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
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ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Red Hat Bug#692584:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692584
RHSA-2011:1301-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1301.html
RHSA-2011:1302-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1302.html
RHSA-2011:1303-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1303.html
RHSA-2011:1304-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1304.html
RHSA-2011:1305-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1305.html
RHSA-2011:1306-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1306.html
RHSA-2011:1307-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1307.html
RHSA-2011:1308-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1308.html
RHSA-2011:1309-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1309.html
RHSA-2011:1310-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1310.html
RHSA-2011:1311-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1311.html
RHSA-2011:1312-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1312.html
RHSA-2011:1313-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1313.html
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