SB2012052201 - Resource management error in feedparser
Published: May 22, 2012 Updated: August 11, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2012052201
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2921)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- 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