{"id":"RLSA-2025:4048","summary":"Moderate: 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* libexpat: expat: Improper Restriction of XML Entity Expansion Depth in libexpat (CVE-2024-8176)\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":"2025-07-29T14:59:55.980167Z","published":"2025-07-29T13:38:26.982620Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-8176"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:4048"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310137"}],"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":"0:1.51.0-11.el8_10"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2025:4048.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"}]}