Bug 1508129 (CVE-2016-5004)

Summary: CVE-2016-5004 xmlrpc: DoS through decompression-bomb attack when Content-Encoding=gzip
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bmcclain, dbhole, dwalluck, eedri, hhorak, java-maint, java-sig-commits, jorton, krzysztof.daniel, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, mizdebsk, puntogil, sbonazzo, sisharma, sochotni, vondruch, ykaul
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Bug Depends On: 1508131, 1577779    
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-10-31 20:41:39 UTC 
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. 

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5
https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-10-31 20:42:54 UTC 
Created xmlrpc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1508131]