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TITLE:
Python XML Processing Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36174

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Python, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors when
processing XML content and can be exploited to cause applications to
hang or crash.

SOLUTION:
Do not process untrusted XML data using Python.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen from the CROSS project
at Codenomicon Ltd, reported via CERT-FI

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
CERT-FI:
http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html

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