Issued:

2018-05-31

Updated:

2018-05-31

RHSA-2018:1779 - Important: xmlrpc3 security update

Synopsis

Important: xmlrpc3 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for xmlrpc3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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

Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a popular protocol that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls.

Security Fix(es):

• xmlrpc: Deserialization of untrusted Java object through This content is not included.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.

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

Updated Packages

• xmlrpc3-server-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm
• xmlrpc3-3.0-4.17.el6_9.src.rpm
• xmlrpc3-javadoc-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm
• xmlrpc3-server-devel-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm
• xmlrpc3-client-devel-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm
• xmlrpc3-common-devel-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm
• xmlrpc3-common-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm
• xmlrpc3-client-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1508123

CVEs

• CVE-2016-5003

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.