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PYSEC-2015-18

Quick fix

PYSEC-2015-18 — django: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'django>=1.6.11'

Details

The utils.html.strip_tags function in Django 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1, when using certain versions of Python, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by increasing the length of the input string.

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Affected packages

PyPI/django

Introduced in: 1.6Fixed in: 1.6.11

Fixpip install --upgrade 'django>=1.6.11'

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2539-1[ADVISORY]
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases/[ARTICLE]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html[WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.html[WEB]
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html[WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73322[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3j3-jrfh-cm2w[ADVISORY]