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Fedora 11 : Django-1.1.1-1.fc11 (2009-10390)

high Nessus Plugin ID 42152

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/oct/09/security/ Description of vulnerability ============================ Django's forms library included field types which perform regular-expression-based validation of email addresses and URLs. Certain addresses/URLs could trigger a pathological performance case in this regular expression, resulting in the server process/thread becoming unresponsive, and consuming excessive CPU over an extended period of time. If deliberately triggered, this could result in an effective denial-of-service attack.

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/2009/oct/09/security/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528246

http://www.nessus.org/u?e0897527

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 42152

File Name: fedora_2009-10390.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/16/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:django, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2009

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2009-10390