RHSA-2022:1540HighCVSS 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 products88

  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2)
  • xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-0:1.51.0-5.el8_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2)
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✅ 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.

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