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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-7537: Vulnerability in Django Python web framework

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-7537: Vulnerability in Django Python web framework

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/09/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/17/2018
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. If django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and words() methods were passed the html=True argument, they were extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to a catastrophic backtracking vulnerability in a regular expression. The chars() and words() methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters, which were thus vulnerable.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-django-1-11-16-11-4-4-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-django-27-1-11-16-11-4-4-0-1-1-0

References

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