Vulnerability advisory

PYSEC-2015-18

Published Mar 25, 2015Updated Jun 10, 2026OSV record ↗

Also known as CVE-2015-2316GHSA-j3j3-jrfh-cm2w

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

django PyPI

Affected	Fixed in
`1.6` to before 1.6.11	`1.6.11`Advisories →
`1.7` to before 1.7.7	`1.7.7`Advisories →
`1.8a0` to before 1.8c1	`1.8c1`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (21) `1.6` `1.6.1` `1.6.10` `1.6.2` `1.6.3` `1.6.4` `1.6.5` `1.6.6` `1.6.7` `1.6.8` `1.6.9` `1.7` `1.7.1` `1.7.2` `1.7.3` `1.7.4` `1.7.5` `1.7.6` `1.8a1` `1.8b1` `1.8b2`

Description

The utils.html.strip_tags function in Django 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1, when using certain versions of Python, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by increasing the length of the input string.

References

Advisorywww.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2539-1 ↗
ARTICLEwww.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/18/security-releases/ ↗
Weblists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html ↗
Weblists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155421.html ↗
Webwww.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html ↗
Webwww.securityfocus.com/bid/73322 ↗
Advisorygithub.com/advisories/GHSA-j3j3-jrfh-cm2w ↗