A Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.8.4 release and security update has been released.

RHSA-2021:5138-04: Critical: Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.8.4 release and security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Critical: Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.8.4 release and security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:5138-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss AMQ
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5138
Issue date: 2021-12-14
CVE Names: CVE-2021-44228
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1. Summary:

Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.8.4 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 1.8.4 serves as a replacement for Red
Hat AMQ Streams 1.8.0, and includes security and bug fixes, and
enhancements.

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, acknowledgments, 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=1.8.4
  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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