CVE-2012-2921 (GCVE-0-2012-2921)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-05-21 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:50
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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