Attackers could use Django to perform web-based attacks.
It was discovered that Django did not properly validate HTTP requests that contain an X-Requested-With header. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. (CVE-2011-0696)
17 February 2011
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Attackers could use Django to perform web-based attacks.
It was discovered that Django did not properly validate HTTP requests that contain an X-Requested-With header. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. (CVE-2011-0696)
It was discovered that Django did not properly sanitize its input when performing file uploads, resulting in cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain. (CVE-2011-0697)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
ATTENTION: This update introduces a small backwards-imcompatible change to perform full CSRF validation on all requests. Prior to this update, AJAX requests were excepted from CSRF protections. For more details, please see http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/releases/1.2.5/.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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