Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in SimpleXMLRPCServer

upon malformed POST request.

Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py

@@ -459,7 +459,10 @@ class SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
             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)
 

Misc/NEWS

@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 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.