Moderate: xmlrpc security update

Synopsis

Moderate: xmlrpc security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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 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 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4 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