Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0829-01 - The jboss-ec2-eap packages provide scripts for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud. With this update, the jboss-ec2-eap package has been updated to ensure compatibility with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14. Security Fix: It was discovered that EAP packages in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux use incorrect permissions for /etc/sysconfig/jbossas configuration files. The file is writable to jboss group. On systems using classic /etc/init.d init scripts, the file is sourced by the jboss init script and its content executed with root privileges when jboss service is started, stopped, or restarted. Continue reading...
