[Quantal] xmlrpc-c is vulnerable to CVE-2012-0876 and CVE-2012-1148

[Tyler Hicks]

XML-RPC for C and C++ could be made to cause a denial of service by consuming excessive CPU and memory resources.

Here is the USN for the stable releases:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1527-2/

and the security team CVE tracker links:

http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2012/CVE-2012-0876
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2012/CVE-2012-1148

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Taking a look

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xmlrpc-c - 1.16.33-3.1ubuntu6

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xmlrpc-c (1.16.33-3.1ubuntu6) quantal; urgency=low

  * Run the tests as part of the build process
    - debian/patches/FTBFS-tests.patch: Fix issues when running make check.
      Based on upstream patches.
    - debian/rules: Run make check after building
  * Fix dependencies of xmlrpc-api-utils
    - debian/control: xml-rcp-api2cpp needs libxmlrpc_cpp.so.4, so depend on
      libxmlrpc-c++4
  * SECURITY UPDATE: Denial of service via hash collisions (LP: #1048835)
    - debian/patches/CVE-2012-0876.patch: Add random salt value to
      hash inputs. Based on upstream patch.
    - CVE-2012-0876
  * SECURITY UPDATE: Denial of service via memory leak (LP: #1048835)
    - debian/patches/CVE-2012-1148.patch: Properly reallocate memory.
      Based on upstream patch.
    - CVE-2012-1148
 -- Tyler Hicks <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:57:29 -0700