cve/2012/CVE-2012-2921.md

### [CVE-2012-2921](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2921)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/browse/trunk/NEWS?spec=svn706&r=706
- https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/detail?r=703&path=/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.