Bug 1508129 (CVE-2016-5004) - CVE-2016-5004 xmlrpc: DoS through decompression-bomb attack when Content-Encoding=gzip
Summary: CVE-2016-5004 xmlrpc: DoS through decompression-bomb attack when Content-Enco...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-5004
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1508131 1577779
Blocks: 1508328
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-10-31 20:41 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-10-27 10:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-27 10:53:30 UTC
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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]
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