MGASA-2019-0035 - Updated python-django packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 11 Jan 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0035.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2019-3498

An upstream patch has been backported to fix a security vulnerability in
python-django. CVE-2019-3498: Content spoofing possibility in the
default 404 page

An attacker could craft a malicious URL that could make spoofed content
appear on the default page generated by the
django.views.defaults.page_not_found() view. The URL path is no longer
displayed in the default 404 template and the request_path context 
variable is now quoted to fix the issue for custom templates that use
the path.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24128
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/jan/04/security-releases/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-3498
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-3498

SRPMS:
- 6/core/python-django-1.8.19-1.1.mga6

Mageia 2019-0035: python-django security update

An upstream patch has been backported to fix a security vulnerability in python-django

Summary

An upstream patch has been backported to fix a security vulnerability in python-django. CVE-2019-3498: Content spoofing possibility in the default 404 page
An attacker could craft a malicious URL that could make spoofed content appear on the default page generated by the django.views.defaults.page_not_found() view. The URL path is no longer displayed in the default 404 template and the request_path context variable is now quoted to fix the issue for custom templates that use the path.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24128

- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/jan/04/security-releases/

- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-3498

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-3498

Resolution

MGASA-2019-0035 - Updated python-django packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 6/core/python-django-1.8.19-1.1.mga6

Severity
Publication date: 11 Jan 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0035.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-3498

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