CVE-2012-2921

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser

First reported 12 years ago

2012-05-21 22:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-08-22 03:55:00

Affected Software

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 3.0

3.0

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 3.0.1

3.0.1

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 3.1

3.1

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 3.2

3.2

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 3.3

3.3

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 4.0

4.0

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 4.0.1

4.0.1

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 4.0.2

4.0.2

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 4.1

4.1

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 5.0

5.0

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 5.0.1

5.0.1

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 5.1

5.1

Mark Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser 5.1.2

5.1.2

References

http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371

81701

49256

MDVSA-2013:118

53654

https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/browse/trunk/NEWS?spec=svn706&r=706

https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/detail?r=703&path=/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0157

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