Executive Summary

Summary
Title Django vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2720-1 First vendor Publication 2015-08-18
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-08-18
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 15.04 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Django could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description: - python-django: High-level Python web development framework (Python 2 version)

Details:

Lin Hua Cheng discovered that Django incorrectly handled the session store. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the session store to fill up, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
python-django 1.7.6-1ubuntu2.2
python3-django 1.7.6-1ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
python-django 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.10

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
python-django 1.3.1-4ubuntu1.18

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2720-1
CVE-2015-5963, CVE-2015-5964

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-django/1.7.6-1ubuntu2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-django/1.6.1-2ubuntu0.10
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-django/1.3.1-4ubuntu1.18

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2720-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 39
Os 3
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-1dd5bc998f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-323274d412.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-23 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-598.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-592.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-301.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-24 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3338.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-19 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_b0e54dc145d211e5adde14dae9d210b8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-19 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2720-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-08-25 21:32:52
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-24 21:33:41
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-21 13:20:37
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-18 21:26:40
  • First insertion