Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-2633-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-2633-01 - Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server. This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.17 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.16, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References. Security Fix: It was found that when using remote logging with log4j socket server the log4j server would deserialize any log event received via TCP or UDP. An attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted log event that, during deserialization, would execute arbitrary code in the context of the logger application.

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