diff --git a/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py b/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
index 4cdc1544d0d..4fefa5a6833 100644
--- a/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
@@ -486,7 +486,10 @@ class SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
             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 = ''.join(L)
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
index c88a1eeaeea..8e65fde6331 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
@@ -589,6 +589,12 @@ class SimpleServerTestCase(BaseServerTestCase):
         # This avoids waiting for the socket timeout.
         self.test_simple1()
 
+    def test_partial_post(self):
+        # Check that a partial POST doesn't make the server loop: issue #14001.
+        conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(ADDR, PORT)
+        conn.request('POST', '/RPC2 HTTP/1.0\r\nContent-Length: 100\r\n\r\nbye')
+        conn.close()
+
 class MultiPathServerTestCase(BaseServerTestCase):
     threadFunc = staticmethod(http_multi_server)
     request_count = 2
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 95e4b868828..a02641f2f99 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
+  SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
+
 - Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
 
 - Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().