CVE-2012-3443

Advisory

The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 completely decompresses image data during image validation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by uploading an image file.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 completely decompresses image data during image validation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by uploading an image file.

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3443
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/31/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/31/1
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/jul/30/security-releases-issued/
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1560-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2529
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:143