SUSE-SU-2019:2042-1

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    SUSE-SU-2019:2042-1

    Published: 2 Aug 2019Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-6975
    Aliases:
    CVE-2019-6975

    Summary: Security update for python-Django

    Details: This update for python-Django fixes the following issues: - Fixed CVE-2019-6975 (bsc#1124991) * Added CVE-2019-6975.patch to fix uncontrolled memory consumption * If ``django.utils.numberformat.format()`` -- used by ``contrib.admin`` as well as the the ``floatformat``, ``filesizeformat``, and ``intcomma`` templates filters -- received a ``Decimal`` with a large number of digits or a large exponent, it could lead to significant memory usage due to a call to ``'{:f}'.format()``. To avoid this, decimals with more than 200 digits are now formatted using scientific notation.

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-20192042-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1124991, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6975

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-Django

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/python-Django&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.8.19-3.12.5

    Affected versions

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