CVE-2012-0845 Information

Description

SimpleXMLRPCServer.py in SimpleXMLRPCServer in Python before 2.6.8 2.7.x before 2.7.3 3.x before 3.1.5 and 3.2.x before 3.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an XML-RPC POST request that contains a smaller amount of data than specified by the Content-Length header.

Reference

http://bugs.python.org/issue14001 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html http://python.org/download/releases/2.6.8/ http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/ http://python.org/download/releases/3.1.5/ http://python.org/download/releases/3.2.3/ http://secunia.com/advisories/50858 http://secunia.com/advisories/51024 http://secunia.com/advisories/51040 http://secunia.com/advisories/51087 http://secunia.com/advisories/51089 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/13/4 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026689 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1592-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1596-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1615-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1616-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789790