Resource Exhaustion Affecting python-django package, versions <1.8.7-1ubuntu5.10
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-PYTHONDJANGO-456325
- published 1 Aug 2019
- disclosed 2 Aug 2019
Introduced: 1 Aug 2019
CVE-2019-14233 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04
python-django
to version 1.8.7-1ubuntu5.10 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-django
package and not the python-django
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:16.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. Due to the behaviour of the underlying HTMLParser, django.utils.html.strip_tags would be extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.