Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-81
Advisory Release Date: 2012-05-21 16:52 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:12 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:
python27
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python27 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
python27-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.i686
python27-libs-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.i686
python27-devel-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.i686
python27-test-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.i686
python27-tools-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.i686
python27-debuginfo-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.i686
src:
python27-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.src
x86_64:
python27-libs-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.x86_64
python27-tools-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.x86_64
python27-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.x86_64
python27-test-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.x86_64
python27-devel-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.x86_64
python27-debuginfo-2.7.3-1.18.amzn1.x86_64