RHSA-2018:2317 — Security Advisory

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.

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.