Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting py3-django package, versions <1.11.19-r0
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.27% (87th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE320-PY3DJANGO-7013800
- published 23 May 2024
- disclosed 11 Feb 2019
Introduced: 11 Feb 2019
CVE-2019-6975 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.20
py3-django
to version 1.11.19-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream py3-django
package and not the py3-django
package as distributed by Alpine
.
See How to fix?
for Alpine:3.20
relevant fixed versions and status.
Django 1.11.x before 1.11.19, 2.0.x before 2.0.11, and 2.1.x before 2.1.6 allows Uncontrolled Memory Consumption via a malicious attacker-supplied value to the django.utils.numberformat.format() function.
References
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/10
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6975
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4476
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6975
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/66WMXHGBXD7GSM3PEXVCMCAGLMQYHZCU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HVXDOVCXLD74SHR2BENGCE2OOYYYWJHZ/
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-announce/WTwEAprR0IQ
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/feb/11/security-releases/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/11/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106964
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-6975
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3890-1/
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/WTwEAprR0IQ
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/66WMXHGBXD7GSM3PEXVCMCAGLMQYHZCU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HVXDOVCXLD74SHR2BENGCE2OOYYYWJHZ/