SUSE-SU-2018:1830-1

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SUSE-SU-2018:1830-1

Summary: Security update for python-Django

Details: This update for python-Django fixes the following security issues: - CVE-2016-2512: The utils.http.is_safe_url function allowed remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or possibly conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a URL containing basic authentication (bsc#967999). - CVE-2018-7536: The django.utils.html.urlize() function was extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to catastrophic backtracking vulnerabilities (bsc#1083304). - CVE-2018-7537: 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 (bsc#1083305).

References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20181830-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1083304, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1083305, https://bugzilla.suse.com/967999, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2512, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7536, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7537