[RHSA-2015:1876-01] Moderate: python-django security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Moderate: python-django security update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:1876-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1876

Issue date: 2015-10-08

CVE Names: CVE-2015-5963

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1. Summary:

 

Updated python-django packages that fix one security issue are now

available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0.

 

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security

impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the

References section.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 - noarch

 

3. Description:

 

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid

development and a clean, pragmatic design. It focuses on automating as much

as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle.

 

It was found that Django incorrectly handled the session store. A session

could be created by anonymously accessing the

django.contrib.auth.views.logout view if it was not decorated correctly

with django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required. A remote attacker could

use this flaw to fill up the session store or cause other users' session

records to be evicted by requesting a large number of new sessions.

(CVE-2015-5963)

 

Red Hat would like to thank the upstream Django project for reporting this

issue.

 

All python-django users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,

which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

 

4. Solution:

 

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata

relevant to your system have been applied.

 

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

 

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

 

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

 

1252890 - CVE-2015-5963 python-django: Denial-of-service possibility in logout() view by filling session store

 

6. Package List:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7:

 

Source:

python-django-1.8.4-1.el7.src.rpm

 

noarch:

python-django-1.8.4-1.el7.noarch.rpm

python-django-bash-completion-1.8.4-1.el7.noarch.rpm

python-django-doc-1.8.4-1.el7.noarch.rpm

 

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and

details on how to verify the signature are available from

https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

 

7. References:

 

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5963

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

Copyright 2015 Red Hat, Inc.

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