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Oracle Linux 8 : xmlrpc-c (ELSA-2022-1643)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2022-1643 advisory.

– xmltok_impl.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5 lacks certain validation of encoding, such as checks for whether a UTF-8 character is valid in a certain context. (CVE-2022-25235)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.Read More

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