DSA-1905 python-django -- insufficient input validationID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7065 | Date: (C)2009-12-15 (M)2022-10-10 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
The forms library of python-django, a high-level Python web development framework, is using a badly chosen regular expression when validating email addresses and URLs. An attacker can use this to perform denial of service attacks (100\\\\% CPU consumption) due to bad backtracking via a specially crafted email address or URL which is validated by the django forms library. python-django in the oldstable distribution (etch), is not affected by this problem.