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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-0845: Python: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-0845: Python: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/05/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-python

References

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