PyPI: django
CVE-2015-2316
Safety vulnerability ID: SFTY-20150325-29053
Safety legacy ID: pyup.io-25731
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.
Overview
Django Denial-of-service possibility with strip_tags
Advisory
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.
Affected Package
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How to Fix
Mitigation and Workarounds
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Vulnerable Functions
Functions linked to known vulnerabilities.
References
- https://getsafety.com/vulnerabilities/SFTY-20150325-29053/CVE-2015-2316
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2316
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2539-1
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200229033201/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73322
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/5447709a571cd5d95971f1d5d21d4a7edcf85bbd
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/b6b3cb9899214a23ebb0f4ebf0e0b300b0ee524f
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/e63363f8e075fa8d66326ad6a1cc3391cc95cd97
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-18.yaml
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3j3-jrfh-cm2w
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