GSD-2012-2921

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20
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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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CVE-2012-2921
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