Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2080
Advisory Release Date: 2023-06-05 16:39 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-07 22:37 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
An untrusted deserialization was found in the org.apache.xmlrpc.parser.XmlRpcResponseParser:addResult method of Apache XML-RPC (aka ws-xmlrpc) library. A malicious XML-RPC server could target a XML-RPC client causing it to execute arbitrary code. Apache XML-RPC is no longer maintained and this issue will not be fixed. (CVE-2019-17570)
Affected Packages:
xmlrpc
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update xmlrpc to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
xmlrpc-javadoc-3.1.3-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch
xmlrpc-common-3.1.3-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch
xmlrpc-client-3.1.3-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch
xmlrpc-server-3.1.3-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch
src:
xmlrpc-3.1.3-9.amzn2.0.1.src