CVE-2015-5143

Advisory

The session backends in Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via multiple requests with unique session keys.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

The session backends in Django before 1.4.21, 1.5.x through 1.6.x, 1.7.x before 1.7.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via multiple requests with unique session keys.

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5143
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2671-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3305
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jul/08/security-releases/
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75666
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-06
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1686.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1678.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00046.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00043.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032820