Re: CVE Request -- python (SimpleXMLRPCServer): DoS (excessive CPU usage) via malformed XML-RPC / HTTP POST request

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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)