Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-8859-03

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: xmlrpc-c security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:8859-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8859
Issue date: 2024-11-05
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-45491
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Summary:

An update for xmlrpc-c is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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

Description:

XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol that uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. The xmlrpc-c packages provide a network protocol to allow a client program to make a simple RPC (remote procedure call) over the Internet. It converts an RPC into an XML document, sends it to a remote server using HTTP, and gets back the response in XML.

Security Fix(es):

* libexpat: Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CVE-2024-45491)

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.

Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

CVEs:

CVE-2024-45491

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308616