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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201510-06">
  <title>Django: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Django, the worst of
    which may allow a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">django</product>
  <announced>2015-10-31</announced>
  <revised count="1">2015-10-31</revised>
  <bug>554864</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-python/django" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.8.3</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">1.7.9</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">1.4.21</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Django is a Python-based web framework.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Django:</p>
    
    <ul>
      <li>Session backends create a new record anytime request.session was
        accessed (CVE-2015-5143)
      </li>
      <li>Built-in validators in Django do not properly sanitize input
        (CVE-2015-5144)
      </li>
      <li>URL validation included a regular expression that was extremely slow
        (CVE-2015-5145)
      </li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker may be able cause a Denial of Service condition,
      inject arbitrary headers, and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks. 
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Django 1.8 users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-python/django-1.8.3"
    </code>
    
    <p>All Django 1.7 users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-python/django-1.7.9"
    </code>
    
    <p>All Django 1.4 users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-python/django-1.4.21"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5143">CVE-2015-5143</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5144">CVE-2015-5144</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5145">CVE-2015-5145</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-10-10T02:24:53Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2015-10-31T15:22:32Z">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>