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Debian DLA-272-1 : python-django security update
high Nessus Plugin ID 84812
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Django, a high-level Python web development framework :CVE-2015-2317
Daniel Chatfield discovered that python-django, a high-level Python web development framework, incorrectly handled user-supplied redirect URLs. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting attack.
CVE-2015-5143
Eric Peterson and Lin Hua Cheng discovered that a new empty record used to be created in the session storage every time a session was accessed and an unknown session key was provided in the request cookie. This could allow remote attackers to saturate the session store or cause other users' session records to be evicted.
CVE-2015-5144
Sjoerd Job Postmus discovered that some built-in validators did not properly reject newlines in input values. This could allow remote attackers to inject headers in emails and HTTP responses.
For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.3-3+squeeze13.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Upgrade the affected python-django, and python-django-doc packages.See Also
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/07/msg00010.html
https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/python-django
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 84812
File Name: debian_DLA-272.nasl
Version: 2.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 7/17/2015
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 5.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-django, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-django-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2015