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Gentoo: GLSA-202401-15 Normal: Django Service Interruption Vulnerabilities

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Secure your Django app on Gentoo Linux against Denial of Service threats with these essential measures to enhance safety and performance
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Django, the worst of which may allow a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Django: * Session backends create a new record anytime request.session was accessed (CVE-2015-5143) * Built-in validators in Django do not properly sanitize input (CVE-2015-5144) * URL validation included a regular expression that was extremely slow (CVE-2015-5145)

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Topics Covered

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Resolution

All Django 1.8 users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/django-1.8.3"
All Django 1.7 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/django-1.7.9"
All Django 1.4 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/django-1.4.21"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-5143 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5143 [ 2 ] CVE-2015-5144 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5144 [ 3 ] CVE-2015-5145 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5145

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-06
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Django: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: October 31, 2015
Bugs: #554864
ID: 201510-06

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Django, the worst of which may allow a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Background

Django is a Python-based web framework.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-python/django < 1.8.3 >= 1.8.3 *>= 1.7.9 *>= 1.4.21

Impact

===== A remote attacker may be able cause a Denial of Service condition, inject arbitrary headers, and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.