CVE-2017-12624 Red Hat Update for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.4 on RHEL 6 (RHSA-2018:2423)

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Javaapplications based on the JBoss Application Server. This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.4 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.3, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fixes: guava: Unbounded memory allocation in AtomicDoubleArray and CompoundOrdering classes allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-10237)
bouncycastle: flaw in the low-level interface to RSA key pair generator (CVE-2018-1000180)
cxf: Improper size validation in message attachment header for JAX-WS and JAX-RS services (CVE-2017-12624)
wildfly: wildfly-core: Path traversal can allow the extraction of .war archives to write arbitrary files (CVE-2018-10862)
cxf-core: apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.* (CVE-2018-8039)

Affected Products:

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6 i386

On successful exploitation it could allow an attacker to execute code.

Upgrade to the latest packages which contain a patch. Refer to Applying Package Updates to RHEL system for details.

Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2018:2423 to address this issue and obtain more information.

Patch:
Following are links for downloading patches to fix the vulnerabilities:

RHSA-2018:2423: Red Hat Enterprise Linux