[RHSA-2022:1539-01] Important: xmlrpc-c security update

Tue Apr 26 16:16:49 UTC 2022

An update for xmlrpc-c is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1
Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. 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. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. 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):

* expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code
execution (CVE-2022-25235)

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.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

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

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

2056366 - CVE-2022-25235 expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1):

Source:
xmlrpc-c-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.src.rpm

aarch64:
xmlrpc-c-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-debugsource-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
xmlrpc-c-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
xmlrpc-c-debugsource-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
xmlrpc-c-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
xmlrpc-c-debugsource-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
xmlrpc-c-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
xmlrpc-c-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
xmlrpc-c-debugsource-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
xmlrpc-c-debugsource-1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security.  Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25235
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

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

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