{"id":"RLSA-2024:4259","summary":"Moderate: xmlrpc-c security and bug fix 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: parsing large tokens can trigger a denial of service (CVE-2023-52425)","modified":"2025-05-07T19:38:06.321968Z","published":"2025-05-07T19:11:34.309952Z","upstream":["CVE-2023-52425"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:4259"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262877"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"xmlrpc-c","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/xmlrpc-c?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:1.51.0-9.el8_10"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2024:4259.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:N/I:N/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}