Denial of Service Vulnerability in SimpleXMLRPCServer in Python

CVE-2012-0845 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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