CVE-2012-0845

Published: 14 February 2012

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
python2.4 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage






python2.5 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage






python2.6 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.8)






	Patches: Upstream: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/24244a744d01/
python2.7 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.7.3)






	Patches: Upstream: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0c02f30b2538/
python3.1 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage






	Patches: Upstream: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4dd5a94fd3e3/
python3.2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (3.2.3)






	Patches: Upstream: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cd67740ce653/

Notes

Author	Note
jdstrand	reproducer doesn't work on 8.04 LTS python2.4, but the code is sufficiently similar that we'll patch

References

Bugs

http://bugs.python.org/issue14001

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