Fedora 9 : Django-0.96.3-1.fc9 (2008-7672)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34142

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to upstream version 0.96.3 that fixes cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue that may occur after user re-authentication after expiration of current session:
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/sep/02/security/ This issue also affected deployments with Django's bundled CSRF-protection module activated.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected Django package.

See Also

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/sep/02/security/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460966

http://www.nessus.org/u?94914d54

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34142

File Name: fedora_2008-7672.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/10/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:django, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3909

CWE: 352

FEDORA: 2008-7672