Red Hat alert RHSA-2025:4048-01 (xmlrpc-c)

An update for xmlrpc-c is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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 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.

Security Fix(es):

* libexpat: expat: Improper Restriction of XML Entity Expansion Depth in
libexpat (CVE-2024-8176)

For 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.

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