INFSA-2024:8859: xmlrpc-c security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2024:8859

Type: security

Release date: 2024-11-12 06:41:29 UTC

Information about package

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.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2024-45491

    An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. dtdCopy in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for nDefaultAtts on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX).

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 7.5 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

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