Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting python-django package, versions <1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.5
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- published1 Aug 2019
- disclosed2 Aug 2019
Introduced: 1 Aug 2019
CVE-2019-14235 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 python-django to version 1:1.11.11-1ubuntu1.5 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:18.04 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. If passed certain inputs, django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri could lead to significant memory usage due to a recursion when repercent-encoding invalid UTF-8 octet sequences.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-14235
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14235
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/15
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0002/
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/aug/01/security-releases/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4498
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-14235
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STVX7X7IDWAH5SKE6MBMY3TEI6ZODBTK/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-announce/jIoju2-KLDs
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00025.html
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/jIoju2-KLDs
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STVX7X7IDWAH5SKE6MBMY3TEI6ZODBTK/