Denial of Service Vulnerability in Universal Feed Parser (feedparser or python-feedparser)

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Universal Feed Parser (feedparser or python-feedparser)

CVE-2012-2921 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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