Bug 824600 (CVE-2012-2921)

Summary:	CVE-2012-2921 python-feedparser: DoS via memory consumption processing ENTITY declarations
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bugs.michael, jpopelka, karlthered, lmacken, louiz
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Description Vincent Danen 2012-05-23 19:54:29 UTC

A denial of service flaw was reported and fixed in feedparser, a module for parsing atom and RSS feeds in python.  Previously, ENTITY declarations could be used to create a denial of service through exponential memory consumption, by allowing such declarations to hide in non-ASCII-compatible encoded documents.  Feedparser now first normalizes the encoding and then replaces the DOCTYPE and ENTITY declarations.

This is corrected in upstream version 5.1.2 [1] and svn r703 [2].

[1] http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371
[2] https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/detail?r=703&path=/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-05-23 19:55:42 UTC

Created python-feedparser tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 824602]
Affects: epel-all [bug 824604]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2012-06-01 17:14:48 UTC

python-feedparser-5.1.2-2.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Haïkel Guémar 2012-08-05 08:16:31 UTC

The bugfixes have been pushed to currently supported releases.