Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=357051 Summary: Django 0.96 i18n DoS Product: Fedora Version: f7 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: low Priority: low Component: Django AssignedTo: michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx ReportedBy: ville.skytta@xxxxxx QAContact: extras-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: fedora-security-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2007/oct/26/security-fix/ "A per-process cache used by Django's internationalization ("i18n") system to store the results of translation lookups for particular values of the HTTP Accept-Language header used the full value of that header as a key. An attacker could take advantage of this by sending repeated requests with extremely large strings in the Accept-Language header, potentially causing a denial of service by filling available memory. Due to limitations imposed by Web server software on the size of HTTP header fields, combined with reasonable limits on the number of requests which may be handled by a single server process over its lifetime, this vulnerability may be difficult to exploit. Additionally, it is only present when the "USE_I18N" setting in Django is "True" and the i18n middleware component is enabled*. Nonetheless, all users of affected versions of Django are encouraged to update." All Fedora and EPEL branches are at 0.96 (which is vulnerable) at the moment. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. -- Fedora-security-list mailing list Fedora-security-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-security-list
