Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-scrapy  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-PYTHONSCRAPY-583149
  • published5 Sept 2017
  • disclosed5 Sept 2017

Introduced: 5 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14158  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

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 Ubuntu.

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.