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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3305-1 python-django -- security update

Date Reported:

08 Jul 2015

Affected Packages:

python-django

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-5143, CVE-2015-5144.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Django, a high-level Python web development framework:

• CVE-2015-5143

  Eric Peterson and Lin Hua Cheng discovered that a new empty record used to be created in the session storage every time a session was accessed and an unknown session key was provided in the request cookie. This could allow remote attackers to saturate the session store or cause other users' session records to be evicted.

• CVE-2015-5144

  Sjoerd Job Postmus discovered that some built-in validators did not properly reject newlines in input values. This could allow remote attackers to inject headers in emails and HTTP responses.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.5-1+deb7u12.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.7-1+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-django packages.