Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Django vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-2539-1 First vendor Publication 2015-03-23
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-03-23
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Django.

Software Description: - python-django: High-level Python web development framework

Details:

Andrey Babak discovered that Django incorrectly handled strip_tags. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Django to enter an infinite loop, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. (CVE-2015-2316)

Daniel Chatfield 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-2015-2317)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
python-django 1.6.6-1ubuntu2.2
python3-django 1.6.6-1ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
python-django 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.8

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
python-django 1.3.1-4ubuntu1.16

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
python-django 1.1.1-2ubuntu1.17

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2539-1
CVE-2015-2316, CVE-2015-2317

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-django/1.6.6-1ubuntu2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-django/1.6.1-2ubuntu0.8
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-django/1.3.1-4ubuntu1.16
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-django/1.1.1-2ubuntu1.17

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2539-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
50 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 102
Os 4
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-09-23 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-598.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-272.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-19 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-9604.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-5766.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-07 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-195.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-02 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-281.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-109.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-27 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_62287f51d43d11e4879c00e0814cab4e.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-25 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3204.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2539-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-03-27 13:33:14
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2015-03-25 21:32:09
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2015-03-25 13:28:51
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2015-03-23 21:27:07
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