CVE-2012-2921 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371 http://osvdb.org/81701 http://secunia.com/advisories/49256 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:118 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/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