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Red Hat OpenStack 13.0 RHSA-2019-0082-01 Moderate: Python-Django Issue

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Calendar Grey January 16, 2019
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Delve into the security enhancement for python-django within Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0, adeptly addressing a medium-level concern.
An update for python-django is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens)

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):
* django: Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions via 'urlize' and 'urlizetrunc' (CVE-2018-7536)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank the Django project for reporting this issue.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7536 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0:
Source: python-django-1.11.11-1.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: python-django-bash-completion-1.11.11-1.el7ost.noarch.rpm python2-django-1.11.11-1.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-2019:0082-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Issue date: 2019-01-16

Topic

An update for python-django is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform13.0 (Queens).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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1549777 - CVE-2018-7536 django: Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions via 'urlize' and 'urlizetrunc'

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