CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2921
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• mark pilgrim feedparser (<= 5.1.1)
• mark pilgrim feedparser 3.0
• mark pilgrim feedparser 3.0.1
• mark pilgrim feedparser 3.1
• mark pilgrim feedparser 3.2
• mark pilgrim feedparser 3.3
• mark pilgrim feedparser 4.0
• mark pilgrim feedparser 4.0.1
• mark pilgrim feedparser 4.0.2
• mark pilgrim feedparser 4.1
• mark pilgrim feedparser 5.0
• mark pilgrim feedparser 5.0.1
• mark pilgrim feedparser 5.1
• mark pilgrim feedparser 5.1.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371 freecode.com
- http://osvdb.org/81701 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49256 secunia.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:118 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53654 www.securityfocus.com
- https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/browse/trunk/NEWS?spec=svn706&r=706 code.google.com
- https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/detail?r=703&path=/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py code.google.com
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0157 wiki.mageia.org
- http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371 freecode.com
- http://osvdb.org/81701 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49256 secunia.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:118 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53654 www.securityfocus.com
- https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/browse/trunk/NEWS?spec=svn706&r=706 code.google.com
- https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/detail?r=703&path=/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py code.google.com
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0157 wiki.mageia.org