A Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.5 release and security update has been released.

RHSA-2021:5133-03: Critical: Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.5 release and security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Critical: Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.5 release and security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:5133-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss AMQ
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5133
Issue date: 2021-12-14
CVE Names: CVE-2021-44228
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1. Summary:

Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.5 is now available from the Red Hat Customer
Portal.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Critical. 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.

2. Description:

Red Hat AMQ Streams, based on the Apache Kafka project, offers a
distributed backbone that allows microservices and other applications to
share data with extremely high throughput and extremely low latency.

This release of Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.5 serves as a replacement for Red
Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.4, and includes security and bug fixes, and
enhancements. For further information, refer to the release notes linked to
in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

* log4j-core: Remote code execution in Log4j 2.x when logs contain an
attacker-controlled string value (CVE-2021-44228)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in
the References section.

3. Solution:

Before applying the update, back up your existing installation, including
all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings, and
so on.

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must
log in to download the update).

4. Bugs fixed (  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2030932 - CVE-2021-44228 log4j-core: Remote code execution in Log4j 2.x when logs contain an attacker-controlled string value

5. References:

  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44228
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
  https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=distributions&product=jboss.amq.streams&version=1.6.5
  https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-009

6. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at   https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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