Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Django, a high-level Python web development framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2015-0219 Jedediah Smith reported that the WSGI environ in Django does not distinguish between headers containing dashes and headers containing underscores. A remote attacker could use this flaw to spoof WSGI headers. CVE-2015-0220 Mikko Ohtamaa discovered that the django.util.http.is_safe_url() function in Django does not properly handle leading whitespaces in user-supplied redirect URLs. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting attack. CVE-2015-0221 Alex Gaynor reported a flaw in the way Django handles reading files in the django.views.static.serve() view. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to mount a denial of service via resource consumption.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.5-1+deb7u9. For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.1-1.1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.1-1.1. We recommend that you upgrade your python-django packages.

Django is a high-level web application framework that loosely follows the model-view-controller design pattern.

python-django on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3151.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25