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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200502-09">
+ <title>Python: Arbitrary code execution through SimpleXMLRPCServer</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Python-based XML-RPC servers may be vulnerable to remote execution of
+ arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">Python</product>
+ <announced>February 08, 2005</announced>
+ <revised>February 08, 2005: 01</revised>
+ <bug>80592</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-lang/python" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.3.4-r1</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="rge">2.3.3-r2</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="rge">2.2.3-r6</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="le">2.3.4</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented,
+ cross-platform programming language.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Graham Dumpleton discovered that XML-RPC servers making use of the
+ SimpleXMLRPCServer library that use the register_instance() method to
+ register an object without a _dispatch() method are vulnerable to a
+ flaw allowing to read or modify globals of the associated module.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker may be able to exploit the flaw in such XML-RPC
+ servers to execute arbitrary code on the server host with the rights of
+ the XML-RPC server.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ Python users that don't make use of any SimpleXMLRPCServer-based
+ XML-RPC servers, or making use of servers using only the
+ register_function() method are not affected.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Python users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose dev-lang/python</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0089">CAN-2005-0089</uri>
+ <uri link="http://www.python.org/security/PSF-2005-001/">Python PSF-2005-001</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:45:11 +0000">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:31:41 +0000">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:35:29 +0000">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>