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USN-1040-1: Django vulnerabilities

7 January 2011

An attacker could send crafted input to Django and cause it to utilize too many resources.

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Details

Adam Baldwin discovered that Django did not properly validate query string
lookups. This could be exploited to provide an information leak to an
attacker with admin privilieges. (CVE-2010-4534)

Paul McMillan discovered that Django did not validate the length of the
token used when generating a password reset. An attacker could exploit
this to cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion. (CVE-2010-4535)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

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