UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6975

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6975

    Published: 11 Feb 2019Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-6975
    Aliases:
    USN-3890-1

    Summary:

    Details: Django 1.11.x before 1.11.19, 2.0.x before 2.0.11, and 2.1.x before 2.1.6 allows Uncontrolled Memory Consumption via a malicious attacker-supplied value to the django.utils.numberformat.format() function.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-6975, https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/feb/11/security-releases/, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-announce/WTwEAprR0IQ, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/11/1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3890-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6975

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-django

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.8.7-1ubuntu5.8

    Affected versions

    1.7.9-1ubuntu5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High