Ubuntu 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : python-django vulnerabilities (USN-1040-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51437

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Adam Baldwin discovered that Django did not properly validate query string lookups. This could be exploited to provide an information leak to an attacker with admin privilieges. (CVE-2010-4534)

Paul McMillan discovered that Django did not validate the length of the token used when generating a password reset. An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion.
(CVE-2010-4535).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected python-django and / or python-django-doc packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1040-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51437

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1040-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/7/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-django, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-django-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4534, CVE-2010-4535

BID: 45562, 45563

USN: 1040-1