USN-2469-1

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USN-2469-1

Summary: python-django vulnerabilities

Details: Jedediah Smith discovered that Django incorrectly handled underscores in WSGI headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to spoof headers in certain environments. (CVE-2015-0219) Mikko Ohtamaa discovered that Django incorrectly handled user-supplied redirect URLs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting attack. (CVE-2015-0220) Alex Gaynor discovered that Django incorrectly handled reading files in django.views.static.serve(). A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Django to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-0221) Keryn Knight discovered that Django incorrectly handled forms with ModelMultipleChoiceField. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a large number of SQL queries, resulting in a database denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. (CVE-2015-0222)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2469-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0219, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0220, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0221, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0222