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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3338-1 (python-django - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Lin Hua Cheng discovered that a session could be created when anonymously accessing the django.contrib.auth.views.logout view. This could allow remote attackers to saturate the session store or cause other users' session records to be evicted. Additionally the contrib.sessions.backends.base.SessionBase.flush() and cache_db.SessionStore.flush() methods have been modified to avoid creating a new empty session as well.
Affected Software
Affected Software
python-django on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.5-1+deb7u13. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.7-1+deb8u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed shortly. We recommend that you upgrade your python-django packages.