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PYSEC-2012-14

Quick fix

PYSEC-2012-14 — feedparser: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'feedparser>=5.1.2'

Details

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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Affected packages

PyPI/feedparser

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 5.1.2

Fixpip install --upgrade 'feedparser>=5.1.2'

References

http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371[WEB]
https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/detail?r=703&path=/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py[WEB]
https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/browse/trunk/NEWS?spec=svn706&r=706[WEB]
http://osvdb.org/81701[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/49256[ADVISORY]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53654[WEB]
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0157[WEB]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:118[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hjf3-r7gw-9rwg[ADVISORY]