Django: Multiple vulnerabilities

Django: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Django, the worst of which may allow a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service. django 2015-10-31 2015-10-31 554864 remote 1.8.3 1.7.9 1.4.21 1.8.3

Django is a Python-based web framework.

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)

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

There is no known workaround at this time.

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"

CVE-2015-5143 CVE-2015-5144 CVE-2015-5145 BlueKnight ackle