CVE-2005-0089 - Spireless Electric Eel

Description

The SimpleXMLRPCServer library module in Python 2.2 2.3 before 2.3.5 and 2.4 when used by XML-RPC servers that use the register_instance method to register an object without a _dispatch method allows remote attackers to read or modify globals of the associated module and possibly execute arbitrary code via dotted attributes.

Reference

http://www.python.org/security/PSF-2005-001/ http://python.org/security/PSF-2005-001/patch-2.2.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-666 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-108.html http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0003/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12437 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013083 http://secunia.com/advisories/14128 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:035 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110746469728728&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19217 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9811