SUSE-SU-2015:0694-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2015-03-25 23:21 - Updated: 2026-09-20 12:02
Summary
Security update for python-Django
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for python-Django
Description of the patch: python-Django has been updated to fix two vulnerabilities: * URLs starting with control characters could have allowed XSS (cross-site-scripting) attacks via user-supplied redirect URLs (CVE-2015-2317) * An infinite loop possibility could be triggered in the strip_tags() function, which allowed denial of service attacks (CVE-2015-2316) Security Issues: * CVE-2015-2316 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2316> * CVE-2015-2317 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2317>
Patchnames: sleclo50sp3-python-Django
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2015-2316
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5:python-Django-0:1.6.11-0.7.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate
CVE-2015-2317
Affected products
Recommended 1 product, the same list as for CVE-2015-2316
Threats
Impact low
References
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