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Red Hat OpenStack 5.0: RHSA-2016:2039-01 Moderate: CSRF Bypass

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Minor revision for Django-Python within Red Hat OpenStack mitigates CSRF vulnerabilities, bolstering security protocols.
An update for python-django is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and a clean, pragmatic design. It focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle.
Security Fix(es):
* A CSRF flaw was found in Django, where an interaction between Google Analytics and Django's cookie parsing could allow an attacker to set arbitrary cookies leading to a bypass of CSRF protection. In this update, the parser for 'request.COOKIES' has been simplified to better match browser behavior and to mitigate this attack. 'request.COOKIES' may now contain cookies that are invalid according to RFC 6265 but are possible to set using 'document.cookie'. (CVE-2016-7401)
Red Hat would like to thank the upstream Django project for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue Red Hat CSRF python-django OpenStack

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7401 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7:
Source: python-django-1.6.11-6.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: python-django-1.6.11-6.el7ost.noarch.rpm python-django-bash-completion-1.6.11-6.el7ost.noarch.rpm python-django-doc-1.6.11-6.el7ost.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2039-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2039.html
Issue date: 2016-10-10

Topic

An update for python-django is now available for Red Hat Enterprise LinuxOpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue Red Hat CSRF python-django OpenStack

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1377376 - CVE-2016-7401 python-django: CSRF protection bypass on a site with Google Analytics

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