{"id":"RLSA-2022:1643","summary":"Important: xmlrpc-c security update","details":"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.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235)\n\nFor 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.","modified":"2026-02-04T11:15:12.127742Z","published":"2022-04-28T14:07:17Z","upstream":["CVE-2022-25235"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2022:1643"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2056366"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"xmlrpc-c","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/xmlrpc-c?distro=rocky-linux-8-5-legacy&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:1.51.0-5.el8_5.1"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2022:1643.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}