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Posted on 24 May 2012
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TITLE:
feedparser DOCTYPE and ENTITY XML Declaration Denial of Service
Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49254
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-05-23
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in feedparser, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
An error when handling DOCTYPE and ENTITY XML declarations can be
exploited to cause a high memory resource consumption via a
non-ASCII-compatible encoded document.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 5.1.2.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.1.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371
https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/detail?r=703&path=/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py
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