• [SECURITY] [DSA 1905-1] New python-django packages fix denial of servic

    From Nico Golde@1:229/2 to All on Sat Oct 10 20:20:06 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1905-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde October 10th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : python-django
    Vulnerability : insufficient input validation
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    Debian bug : #550457
    CVE ID : None yet

    The forms library of python-django, a high-level Python web development framework, is using a badly chosen regular expression when validating
    email addresses and URLs. An attacker can use this to perform denial
    of service attacks (100% CPU consumption) due to bad backtracking
    via a specially crafted email address or URL which is validated by the
    django forms library.


    python-django in the oldstable distribution (etch), is not affected by
    this problem.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.0.2-1+lenny2.

    For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.1.1-1.


    We recommend that you upgrade your python-django packages.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
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    Debian (stable)
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    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-django/python-django_1.0.2-1+lenny2.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1606 7d335038ed1c10264a8ae9089574397c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-django/python-django_1.0.2.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4649433 89353e3749668778f1370d2e444f3adc
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-django/python-django_1.0.2-1+lenny2.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 15789 586cdeaa9d99dc74240a16d1c40803fb

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-django/python-django_1.0.2-1+lenny2_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4706950 f01133963dbac73a87e9a209f85cb38d


    These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
    its next update.

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