CVE-2012-2921

Advisory

Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) before 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML ENTITY declaration in a non-ASCII encoded document.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) before 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML ENTITY declaration in a non-ASCII encoded document.

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2921
• http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371
• https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/detail?r=703&path=/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py
• https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/browse/trunk/NEWS?spec=svn706&r=706
• http://osvdb.org/81701
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49256
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53654
• https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0157
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:118