{"id":"RLSA-2024:8859","summary":"Moderate: xmlrpc-c security update","details":"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.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* libexpat: Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CVE-2024-45491)\n\nFor 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.","modified":"2026-03-11T06:30:10.412222Z","published":"2024-11-08T15:56:34.521391Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-45491"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:8859"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308616"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"xmlrpc-c","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/xmlrpc-c?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:1.51.0-10.el8_10"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2024:8859.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}