RHSA-2017:0830
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2017-03-22 17:21 - Updated: 2025-11-21 17:59Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Topic: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.
This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.5 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.4, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.
Security Fix(es):
* It was found that JBoss EAP 7 Header Cache was inefficient. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service attack. (CVE-2016-9589)
Red Hat would like to thank Gabriel Lavoie (Halogen Software) for reporting this issue.
Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
It was found that JBoss EAP 7 Header Cache was inefficient. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service attack.
7.5 (High)
Affected products
Fixed
1 product
| Product | Identifier | Version | Remediation |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7
Red Hat / Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
|
cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7
|
— |
Vendor Fix
fix
|
Threats
Impact
Moderate
References
11 references
Acknowledgments
Halogen Software
Gabriel Lavoie
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Nomenclature
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