Security update for python-Django

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1830-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2016-2512 ( NVD ): 7.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2018-7536 ( NVD ): 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
  • CVE-2018-7537 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
  • CVE-2018-7537 ( NVD ): 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3

An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description:

This update for python-Django fixes the following security issues:

  • CVE-2016-2512: The utils.http.is_safe_url function allowed remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or possibly conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a URL containing basic authentication (bsc#967999).
  • CVE-2018-7536: The django.utils.html.urlize() function was extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to catastrophic backtracking vulnerabilities (bsc#1083304).
  • CVE-2018-7537: If django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and words() methods were passed the html=True argument, they were extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to a catastrophic backtracking vulnerability in a regular expression (bsc#1083305).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-5-2018-1237=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 (noarch)
    • python-Django-1.6.11-6.5.1

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