Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in SimpleXMLRPCServer
upon malformed POST request.
diff --git a/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py b/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
index 6af2f2f..23ad5bd 100644
--- a/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
@@ -459,7 +459,10 @@
L = []
while size_remaining:
chunk_size = min(size_remaining, max_chunk_size)
- L.append(self.rfile.read(chunk_size))
+ chunk = self.rfile.read(chunk_size)
+ if not chunk:
+ break
+ L.append(chunk)
size_remaining -= len(L[-1])
data = ''.join(L)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 92e8197..20d39b6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
+ SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
+
- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
IV attack countermeasure.