RHSA-2022:1539HighCVSS 9.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: xmlrpc-c security update

Published
April 26, 2022
Last Modified
August 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-25235 →

📋 Description

CVE-2022-25235 — expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution

🎯 Affected products26

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-client-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-client-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-client-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-debugsource-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-debugsource-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xmlrpc-c-debugsource-0:1.51.0-5.el8_1.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: There is no known mitigation other than restricting applications using the expat library from processing untrusted XML content. Please update the affected packages as soon as possible.

🔗 References (4)