[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: python-feedparser-5.1.2-2.el6

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-10418
2013-06-11 16:26:13
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Name        : python-feedparser
Product     : Fedora EPEL 6
Version     : 5.1.2
Release     : 2.el6
URL         : http://feedparser.org/
Summary     : Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python
Description :
Universal Feed Parser is a Python module for downloading and parsing
syndicated feeds. It can handle RSS 0.90, Netscape RSS 0.91,
Userland RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.93, RSS 0.94, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0,
Atom 0.3, Atom 1.0, and CDF feeds. It also parses several popular extension
modules, including Dublin Core and Apple's iTunes extensions.

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Update Information:

Update to 5.1.2 to fix a denial of service flaw. http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/browse/NEWS
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #824600 - CVE-2012-2921 python-feedparser: DoS via memory consumption processing ENTITY declarations
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824600
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update python-feedparser' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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