USN-1449-1: feedparser vulnerability
22 May 2012
Applications using feedparser could be made to crash if they fetched a specially crafted feed.
Releases
Packages
- feedparser - Universal Feed Parser for Python
Details
It was discovered that feedparser did not properly sanitize ENTITY
declarations in encoded fields. A remote attacker could exploit this to
cause a denial of service via memory exhaustion.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.