Description
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the forms library in Django 1.0 before 1.0.4 and 1.1 before 1.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted (1) EmailField (email address) or (2) URLField (URL) that triggers a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36655 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53727 ↗
- http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/oct/09/security/ ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36948 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36968 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1905 ↗
- http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/15df9e45118dfc51/ ↗
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550457 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/13/6 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2871 ↗