Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting xmlrpc-server package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-XMLRPCSERVER-1351852
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed24 May 2016
Introduced: 24 May 2016
CVE-2016-5004 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 xmlrpc-server.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xmlrpc-server package and not the xmlrpc-server package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
The Content-Encoding HTTP header feature in ws-xmlrpc 3.1.3 as used in Apache Archiva allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by decompressing a large file containing zeroes.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91736
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5004
- https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html
- https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294