Package        : python-django
Version        : 1.7.11-1+deb8u7
CVE IDs        : CVE-2019-14232 CVE-2019-14233
Debian Bug     : #934026

It was discovered that there were two vulnerabilities in the
Django web development framework:

  * CVE-2019-14232: Prevent a possible denial-of-service in
    django.utils.text.Truncator.

    If django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and words() methods were
    passed the html=True argument, they were extremely slow to
    evaluate certain inputs due to a catastrophic backtracking
    vulnerability in a regular expression.  The chars() and words()
    methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and
    truncatewords_html template filters, which were thus vulnerable.

    The regular expressions used by Truncator have been simplified in
    order to avoid potential backtracking issues. As a consequence,
    trailing punctuation may now at times be included in the
    truncated output.

  * CVE-2019-14233: Prevent a possible denial-of-service in strip_tags().

    Due to the behavior of the underlying HTMLParser,
    django.utils.html.strip_tags() would be extremely slow to
    evaluate certain inputs containing large sequences of nested
    incomplete HTML entities. The strip_tags() method is used to
    implement the corresponding striptags template filter, which was
    thus also vulnerable.

    strip_tags() now avoids recursive calls to HTMLParser when
    progress removing tags, but necessarily incomplete HTML entities,
    stops being made.

    Remember that absolutely NO guarantee is provided about the
    results of strip_tags() being HTML safe. So NEVER mark safe the
    result of a strip_tags() call without escaping it first, for
    example with django.utils.html.escape().

For Debian 8 "Jessie", these has been fixed in python-django version
1.7.11-1+deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-django packages. You can
find more information in upstream's announcement:

  https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/aug/01/security-releases/

Thanks to Carlton Gibson et al. for their handling of these issues.


Regards,

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