Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-80
Advisory Release Date: 2012-05-21 16:50 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:11 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
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.
Affected Packages:
python26
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python26 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
python26-devel-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.i686
python26-tools-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.i686
python26-test-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.i686
python26-debuginfo-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.i686
python26-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.i686
python26-libs-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.i686
src:
python26-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.src
x86_64:
python26-debuginfo-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
python26-devel-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
python26-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
python26-libs-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
python26-test-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
python26-tools-2.6.8-1.45.amzn1.x86_64