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PYSEC-2015-20

Details

The session backends in Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via multiple requests with unique session keys.

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Affected packages

PyPI / django

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 1.4.21

Fix pip install --upgrade 'django>=1.4.21'

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2671-1 [ADVISORY]
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3305 [ADVISORY]
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jul/08/security-releases/ [ARTICLE]
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html [WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75666 [WEB]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-06 [ADVISORY]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html [WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1686.html [ADVISORY]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1678.html [ADVISORY]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00046.html [WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00043.html [WEB]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032820 [WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h582-2pch-3xv3 [ADVISORY]