MGASA-2015-0293

Advisory lineage Upstream: 3 Downstream: 0
Published: 28 Jul 2015, 21:01
Last modified:16 Apr 2026, 06:23

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

28 Jul 2015, 21:01
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
16 Apr 2026, 06:23
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Updated python-django and python-django14 packages fix security vulnerabilities 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-2015-5143). 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 (CVE-2015-5144). django.core.validators.URLValidator included a regular expression that was extremely slow to evaluate against certain inputs. This regular expression has been simplified and optimized (CVE-2015-5145). The Mageia 4 python-django14 and Mageia 5 python-django packages have been updated to versions 1.4.21 and 1.8.3 respectively to fix these issues. Note that the CVE-2015-5145 issue only affected python-django. Note: the python-django package in Mageia 4, based on Django 1.5.9, is no longer supported. Users of this package are advised to migrate to Mageia 5.

Affected Systems

  • mageia•python-django14

    < 1.4.21-1.mga4

  • mageia•python-django

    < 1.8.3-1.mga5

References (4)