Resource Exhaustion Affecting python-scrapy package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
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- published5 Sept 2017
- disclosed5 Sept 2017
Introduced: 5 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14158 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9 python-scrapy.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-scrapy package and not the python-scrapy package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
Scrapy 1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via large files because arbitrarily many files are read into memory, which is especially problematic if the files are then individually written in a separate thread to a slow storage resource, as demonstrated by interaction between dataReceived (in core/downloader/handlers/http11.py) and S3FilesStore.