SB2024040909 - Fedora 40 update for python-django 

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SB2024040909 - Fedora 40 update for python-django

Published: April 9, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024040909
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-24680)

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in intcomma template filter. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


2) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27351)

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions in django.utils.text.Truncator.words(). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References