CVE-2015-5964

Advisory

The (1) contrib.sessions.backends.base.SessionBase.flush and (2) cache_db.SessionStore.flush functions in Django 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions create empty sessions in certain circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

The (1) contrib.sessions.backends.base.SessionBase.flush and (2) cache_db.SessionStore.flush functions in Django 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions create empty sessions in certain circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5964
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases/
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2720-1
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76440
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172084.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1894.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1767.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1766.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033318
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3338