Gentoo update for Django

Published: 2015-10-31 | Updated: 2016-09-25

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	3
CVE-ID	CVE-2015-5143 CVE-2015-5144 CVE-2015-5145
CWE-ID	CWE-399 CWE-20
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software	Gentoo Linux Operating systems & Components / Operating system
Vendor	Gentoo

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU32401

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5143

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The session backends in Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via multiple requests with unique session keys.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages.
dev-python/django to version: 1.8.3

Vulnerable software versions

Gentoo Linux: All versions

CPE2.3

cpe:2.3:o:gentoo:gentoo_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://security.gentoo.org/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-06

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Input validation error

EUVDB-ID: #VU32402

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5144

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation