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

[Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov () redhat com>]

Hello vendors,

  just FYI, this issue affected also upstream
PyPy v1.6 and v1.8 versions. Relevant upstream bug
being here:
https://bugs.pypy.org/issue1047

Thanks to David Malcolm for pointing this out!

On 02/13/2012 04:57 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> 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.
Thanks, Kurt.

Since the issue in PyPy is also coming from upstream Python
SimpleXMLRPCServer.py module implementation:

../pypy-1.6/lib-python/2.7/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py

assuming one CVE identifier is enough for both issues.

Thank you && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team