DSA-2529-1 python-django -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2529-1 python-django -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

14 Aug 2012

Affected Packages:

python-django

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 683364.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-3442, CVE-2012-3443, CVE-2012-3444.

More information:

Jeroen Dekkers and others reported several vulnerabilities in Django, a Python Web framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project defines the following issues:

• CVE-2012-3442

  Two functions do not validate the scheme of a redirect target, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a data: URL.

• CVE-2012-3443

  The ImageField class completely decompresses image data during image validation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by uploading an image file.

• CVE-2012-3444

  The get_image_dimensions function in the image-handling functionality uses a constant chunk size in all attempts to determine dimensions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process or thread consumption) via a large TIFF image.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.3-3+squeeze3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-django packages.