RHSA-2014:2019: Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3.2 security update

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Javaapplications based on JBoss Application Server 7.It was discovered that the Apache CXF incorrectly extracted the host namefrom an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field.A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL serverusing a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2012-6153, CVE-2014-3577)It was found that Apache WSS4J (Web Services Security for Java), as used byApache CXF with the TransportBinding, did not, by default, properly enforceall security requirements associated with SAML SubjectConfirmation methods.A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform various types of spoofingattacks on web service endpoints secured by WSS4j that rely on SAML forauthentication. (CVE-2014-3623)The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red HatProduct Security.All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3.2 on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7 are advised to upgrade to these updatedpackages. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update totake effect.