Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name MDVSA-2011:082 First vendor Publication 2011-05-02
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2011-05-02
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in python-feedparser:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in feedparser.py in Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) before 5.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving nested CDATA stanzas (CVE-2009-5065).

feedparser.py in Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) before 5.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed DOCTYPE declaration (CVE-2011-1156).

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in feedparser.py in Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) 5.x before 5.0.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via malformed XML comments (CVE-2011-1157).

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in feedparser.py in Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) 5.x before 5.0.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an unexpected URI scheme, as demonstrated by a javascript: URI (CVE-2011-1158).

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:082

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
75 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
25 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 10

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-08-30 Name : Fedora Update for python-djblets FEDORA-2012-11668
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_11668_python-djblets_fc17.nasl
2012-08-21 Name : Fedora Update for python-djblets FEDORA-2012-11576
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_11576_python-djblets_fc16.nasl
2011-05-06 Name : Mandriva Update for python-feedparser MDVSA-2011:082 (python-feedparser)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2011_082.nasl
2011-05-05 Name : Fedora Update for python-feedparser FEDORA-2011-4894
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_4894_python-feedparser_fc14.nasl
2011-05-05 Name : Fedora Update for python-feedparser FEDORA-2011-4911
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_4911_python-feedparser_fc13.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
73566 python-feedparser feedparser.py Nested CDATA Stanza XSS

73565 python-feedparser feedparser.py Unexpected URI Scheme XSS

73564 python-feedparser feedparser.py XML Comment XSS

73563 python-feedparser feedparser.py DOCTYPE Declaration Remote DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_python-feedparser-110405.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_python-feedparser-110407.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-11576.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-11668.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_2_python-feedparser-110407.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-03 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2011-082.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-4894.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-4911.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-18 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-4988.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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