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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:37:09 -0500
From: David Malcolm <dmalcolm@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey"
	 <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Daniel Callaghan <dcallagh@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- python (SimpleXMLRPCServer): DoS
 (excessive CPU usage) via malformed XML-RPC / HTTP POST request

On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 12:13 +0100, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello vendors,
> 
>    just FYI, this issue affected also upstream
> PyPy v1.6 and v1.8 versions. Relevant upstream bug
> being here:
> https://bugs.pypy.org/issue1047
...and almost certainly 1.7 also, probably earlier versions also: 1.6
and 1.8 were the only versions I had to hand and checked.

[PyPy embeds a copy of CPython's standard library, which it mostly uses
as is, overriding a few things here and there]


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