Synopsis

Moderate: python-django security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Updated python-django packages that fix one security issue are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security
impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the
References section.

Description

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid
development and a clean, pragmatic design. It focuses on automating as much
as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle.

A flaw was found in the Django session backend, which could allow an
unauthenticated attacker to create session records in the configured
session store, causing a denial of service by filling up the session store.
(CVE-2015-5143)

Red Hat would like to thank the upstream Django project for reporting
this issue.

All python-django users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 5.0 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack 5.0 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1239010 - CVE-2015-5143 Django: possible DoS by filling session store

CVEs

• CVE-2015-5143

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Red Hat OpenStack 5.0 for RHEL 7

SRPM
x86_64
python-django-1.6.11-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 564723768be6efc47d6b9e2ec8c427567c3e9b58d379c426dbea4fa5de2a8926
python-django-bash-completion-1.6.11-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: c8d4d878b75925abc0318fc0b681176954f73b12b3985712065582474320501e
python-django-doc-1.6.11-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: a3b3bb9511ecc74f0493c4838e03c93b43fbe060899162bcb00e5b25dd659cfb

Red Hat OpenStack 5.0 for RHEL 6

SRPM
python-django-1.6.11-1.el6ost.src.rpm	SHA-256: 00c85c36d6f82596336764b457fb2c413c2e13410b29124a75fd4a61d073a24f
x86_64
python-django-1.6.11-1.el6ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: fd1f20fe1529843f15b090a7243165347dd4c535042b5eb15af5b96a93a4d136
python-django-bash-completion-1.6.11-1.el6ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 9c1d94ec5d4f994dcd3cf14d6fce1fd9fae3a7b150225d59664496a658d17c14
python-django-doc-1.6.11-1.el6ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 08ae620a03bd7c1e5184a1524ca188640b29c5a36d33e765c9a04a638c09ac4c