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[RHSA-2018:2317-01] Moderate: xmlrpc security update

Posted on 05 August 2018
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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: xmlrpc security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2317-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2317
Issue date: 2018-07-31
CVE Names: CVE-2016-5003
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1. Summary:

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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Tools for RHV Engine - noarch

3. 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.

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/):

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

6. Package List:

Tools for RHV Engine:

Source:
xmlrpc-3.1.3-9.el7_5.src.rpm

noarch:
xmlrpc-client-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm
xmlrpc-common-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm
xmlrpc-javadoc-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm
xmlrpc-server-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.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-2016-5003
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

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

Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc.

 

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