[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: xmlrpc-3.1.3-20.fc28
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-4ac4229aa8
2018-06-02 20:42:19.387810
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Name : xmlrpc
Product : Fedora 28
Version : 3.1.3
Release : 20.fc28
URL : http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/
Summary : Java XML-RPC implementation
Description :
Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a popular protocol
that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls.
Apache XML-RPC was previously known as Helma XML-RPC. If you have code
using the Helma library, all you should have to do is change the import
statements in your code from helma.xmlrpc.* to org.apache.xmlrpc.*.
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Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2016-5003, CVE-2016-5002
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ChangeLog:
* Fri May 18 2018 Michael Simacek <msimacek(a)redhat.com> - 1:3.1.3-20
- Disallow deserialization of <ex:serializable> tags by default
- Resolves CVE-2016-5003
- Disallow loading of external DTD
- Resolves CVE-2016-5002
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1508123 - CVE-2016-5003 xmlrpc: Deserialization of untrusted Java object
through <ex:serializable> tag
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1508123
[ 2 ] Bug #1508110 - CVE-2016-5002 xmlrpc: XML external entity vulnerability SSRF via a
crafted DTD
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1508110
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
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