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Medium DSA-4161-1 2 CVEs

python-django - security update

Published Apr 1, 2018 · Updated Mar 9, 2026

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian · 8 python-django 1.7.11-1+deb8u3
Debian · 9 python-django 1:1.10.7-2+deb9u1

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Medium 5.3

    Django denial-of-service possibility in urlize and urlizetrunc template filters

    An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. The django.utils.html.urlize() function was extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to catastrophic backtracking vulnerabilities in two regular expressions (…

  • Medium 5.3

    Django Denial-of-service possibility in truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters

    An issue was discovered in Django 2.0 before 2.0.3, 1.11 before 1.11.11, and 1.8 before 1.8.19. If django.utils.text.Truncator's chars() and words() methods were passed the html=True argument, they were extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to a catas…