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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1872-1 python-django -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

06 Aug 2019

Affected Packages:

python-django

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-14232, CVE-2019-14233.

More information:

It was discovered that there were two vulnerabilities in the Django web development framework:

• CVE-2019-14232

  Prevent a possible denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator.

  If django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and words() methods were passed the html=True argument, they were extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to a catastrophic backtracking vulnerability in a regular expression. The chars() and words() methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters, which were thus vulnerable.

  The regular expressions used by Truncator have been simplified in order to avoid potential backtracking issues. As a consequence, trailing punctuation may now at times be included in the truncated output.

• CVE-2019-14233

  Prevent a possible denial-of-service in strip_tags().

  Due to the behavior of the underlying HTMLParser, django.utils.html.strip_tags() would be extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities. The strip_tags() method is used to implement the corresponding striptags template filter, which was thus also vulnerable.

  strip_tags() now avoids recursive calls to HTMLParser when progress removing tags, but necessarily incomplete HTML entities, stops being made.

  Remember that absolutely NO guarantee is provided about the results of strip_tags() being HTML safe. So NEVER mark safe the result of a strip_tags() call without escaping it first, for example with django.utils.html.escape().

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.11-1+deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-django packages.

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