Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1508129
CVE-2016-5004 xmlrpc: DoS through decompression-bomb attack when Content-Encoding=gzip
Last modified: 2018-08-18 07:29:38 EDT
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.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5 https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html
Created xmlrpc tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1508131]