$NetBSD: patch-CVE-2012-0845,v 1.1 2012/02/15 16:08:26 drochner Exp $

see python bug #14001

--- Lib/xmlrpc/server.py.orig	2011-06-11 15:48:51.000000000 +0000
+++ Lib/xmlrpc/server.py
@@ -449,7 +449,10 @@ class SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler(BaseHTT
             L = []
             while size_remaining:
                 chunk_size = min(size_remaining, max_chunk_size)
-                L.append(self.rfile.read(chunk_size))
+                chunk = self.rfile.read(chunk_size)
+                if not chunk:
+                    break
+                L.append(chunk)
                 size_remaining -= len(L[-1])
             data = b''.join(L)
 
