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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.8 (Operating System). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code block of the component Python. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-399. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:
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.
The weakness was disclosed 10/22/2013 as APPLE-SA-2013-10-22-3 as confirmed mailinglist post (Apple Security Mailinglist). The advisory is shared for download at lists.apple.com. The mailinglist post contains:
Multiple vulnerabilities existed in python 2.7.2, the most serious of which may lead to decryption of the content of a SSL connection. This update addresses the issues by updating python to version 2.7.5. Further information is available via the python site at http://www.python.org/download/releases/This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2012-0845 since 01/19/2012. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 69687 (Amazon Linux AMI : python26 (ALAS-2012-80)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 350649 (Amazon Linux Security Advisory for python26: ALAS-2012-098).
Upgrading to version 10.9 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (69687). The entries 4807, 5572, 10946 and 10931 are pretty similar.
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CPE 2.3
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Class: Resource managementCWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 69687
Nessus Name: Amazon Linux AMI : python26 (ALAS-2012-80)
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OpenVAS ID: 71172
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: python32
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Upgrade: Mac OS X 10.9
Timeline
01/19/2012 🔍02/15/2012 🔍
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Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: APPLE-SA-2013-10-22-3
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2012-0845 (🔍)
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SecurityTracker: 1026689
Secunia: 51089 - Ubuntu update for python3.2, Moderately Critical
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entry
Created: 10/23/2013 17:41Updated: 04/30/2019 23:14
Changes: 10/23/2013 17:41 (77), 04/30/2019 23:14 (1)
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