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[RHSA-2019:0051-01] Moderate: python-django security update

Posted on 16 January 2019
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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: python-django security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0051-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0051
Issue date: 2019-01-16
CVE Names: CVE-2018-7536
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1. Summary:

An update for python-django is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform
10.0 (Newton).

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

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 - noarch

3. 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.

Security Fix(es):

* django: Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions via 'urlize' and
'urlizetrunc' (CVE-2018-7536)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in
the References section.

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

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

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

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1549777 - CVE-2018-7536 django: Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions via 'urlize' and 'urlizetrunc'

6. Package List:

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0:

Source:
python-django-1.8.19-1.el7ost.src.rpm

noarch:
python-django-1.8.19-1.el7ost.noarch.rpm
python-django-bash-completion-1.8.19-1.el7ost.noarch.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7536
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2019 Red Hat, Inc.

 

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