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Message-ID: <4F3932FD.7050606@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:57:49 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
Daniel Callaghan <dcallagh@...hat.com>,
David Malcolm <dmalcolm@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- python (SimpleXMLRPCServer): DoS
(excessive CPU usage) via malformed XML-RPC / HTTP POST request
On 02/13/2012 07:03 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
>
> we have been notified by Daniel Callaghan via:
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789790
>
> about a denial of service flaw present in the way
> Simple XML-RPC Server module of Python processed
> client connections, that were closed prior the
> complete request body has been received. A remote
> attacker could use this flaw to cause Python Simple
> XML-RPC based server process to consume excessive
> amount of CPU.
>
> Issue has been reported upstream at:
> [2] http://bugs.python.org/issue14001
>
> Could you allocate a CVE identifier for this?
>
> Thank you && Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team
Please use CVE-2012-0845 for this issue.
--
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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