RHSA-2014:1059: Important: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.2.2 security update

JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform is the open source implementation of theJava EE suite of services and Portal services running atop JBoss EnterpriseApplication Platform. It comprises a set of offerings for enterprisecustomers who are looking for pre-configured profiles of JBoss EnterpriseMiddleware components that have been tested and certified together toprovide an integrated experience.It was found that XStream could deserialize arbitrary user-supplied XMLcontent, representing objects of any type. A remote attacker able to passXML to XStream could use this flaw to perform a variety of attacks,including remote code execution in the context of the server running theXStream application. (CVE-2013-7285)It was found that the secure processing feature of Xalan-Java hadinsufficient restrictions defined for certain properties and features.A remote attacker able to provide Extensible Stylesheet LanguageTransformations (XSLT) content to be processed by an application usingXalan-Java could use this flaw to bypass the intended constraints of thesecure processing feature. Depending on the components available in theclasspath, this could lead to arbitrary remote code execution in thecontext of the application server running the application that usesXalan-Java. (CVE-2014-0107)All users of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.2.2 as provided from theRed Hat Customer Portal are advised to install this update.