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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7536
An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. The django.utils.html.urlize() function was extremely...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. The django.utils.html.urlize() function was extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to catastrophic backtracking vulnerabilities in two regular expressions (only one regular expression for Django 1.8.x). The urlize() function is used to implement the urlize and urlizetrunc template filters, which were thus vulnerable.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
python-django
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.11.11-1"}]}]
Debian:13
python-django
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.11.11-1"}]}]
Debian:14
python-django
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.11.11-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org