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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2317 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2018-07-31
Updated:
2018-07-31

RHSA-2018:2317 - Security Advisory

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  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Moderate: xmlrpc security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

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Topic

An update for xmlrpc is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 way to make remote procedure calls over the Internet. It converts procedure calls into XML documents, sends them to a remote server using the HTTP protocol, and gets back the response as XML.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: xmlrpc (3.1.3). (BZ#1594618)

Security Fix(es):

  • xmlrpc: Deserialization of untrusted Java object through <ex:serializable> tag (CVE-2016-5003)

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.

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1508123 - CVE-2016-5003 xmlrpc: Deserialization of untrusted Java object through <ex:serializable> tag

CVEs

  • CVE-2016-5003

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4 for RHEL 7

SRPM
xmlrpc-3.1.3-9.el7_5.src.rpm SHA-256: ad9d106cf7346ac1453b5315e696e5803aa3ec3379368dd4d767a4e13d6aa863
x86_64
xmlrpc-client-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f1d760ce8563f9b0561619bd7ea862a7fb611167c6eaaf4ee5e06543933c8d1a
xmlrpc-common-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 7b13915320ae5eb1f9c2068cb03a5b692d59b7458798b47efacf7d21093e2447
xmlrpc-javadoc-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6657d8b96432c563f42f9458cc09426af246c268e28ab2fb6ca48affbbc3a003
xmlrpc-server-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 619a875e2897be7314417d2644c1689940cb32ab734ed4e1a2ce8f0eded46330

Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7

SRPM
xmlrpc-3.1.3-9.el7_5.src.rpm SHA-256: ad9d106cf7346ac1453b5315e696e5803aa3ec3379368dd4d767a4e13d6aa863
x86_64
xmlrpc-client-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f1d760ce8563f9b0561619bd7ea862a7fb611167c6eaaf4ee5e06543933c8d1a
xmlrpc-common-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 7b13915320ae5eb1f9c2068cb03a5b692d59b7458798b47efacf7d21093e2447
xmlrpc-javadoc-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6657d8b96432c563f42f9458cc09426af246c268e28ab2fb6ca48affbbc3a003
xmlrpc-server-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 619a875e2897be7314417d2644c1689940cb32ab734ed4e1a2ce8f0eded46330

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

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