rhsa-2025:20057
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2025-11-10 20:47
Modified
2025-11-11 00:43
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.23 security update
Notes
Topic
A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.
This asynchronous patch is a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.
Security Fix(es):
* com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java: StackOverflow vulnerability in Protocol Buffers (CVE-2024-7254)
A Red Hat Security Bulletin which addresses further details about this flaw is available in the References section.
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgements, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
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.
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