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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-649-1 python-django -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

06 Oct 2016

Affected Packages:

python-django

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-7401.

More information:

It was discovered that there was a possible CSRF protection bypass on sites that use Google Analytics in python-django, a High-level Python web development framework.

More information can be found in the upstream announcement:

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/sep/26/security-releases/

For Debian 7 Wheezy, this issue has been fixed in python-django version 1.4.22-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-django packages.