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Calendar Grey September 20, 2008
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Debian Security Notice DSA-1640-2 outlines remedy for cross-site request forgery vulnerabilities in python-django package upgrade.
Simon Willison discovered that in Django, a Python web framework, the feature to retain HTTP POST data during user reauthentication allowed a remote attacker to perform unauthori...

Summary


This update takes the opportunity to also include a relatively minor
denial of service attack in the internationalisaton framework, known
as CVE-2007-5712.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.95.1-1etch2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-django package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Size/MD5 checksum: 940 62d31adf6a658ab089df66916148d2d8
Size/MD5 checksum: 1297839 07f09d8...

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