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PYSEC-2015-6

Details

The django.views.static.serve view in Django before 1.4.18, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 reads files an entire line at a time, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long line in a file.

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Affected packages

PyPI / django

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 1.4.18

Fix pip install --upgrade 'django>=1.4.18'

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/62285 [ADVISORY]
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/13/security/ [ARTICLE]
http://secunia.com/advisories/62309 [ADVISORY]
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2469-1 [WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/62718 [ADVISORY]
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0026.html [ADVISORY]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:036 [ADVISORY]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:109 [ADVISORY]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html [WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148485.html [WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148696.html [WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148608.html [WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html [WEB]