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CVE-2009-3695

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2009-10-16	django -- denial-of-service attack

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CVE-2009-3695 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2009-3695
Phase	Assigned(20091013)

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the forms library in Django 1.0 before 1.0.4 and 1.1 before 1.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted (1) EmailField (email address) or (2) URLField (URL) that triggers a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression.

References

Source	Reference
MLIST	[oss-security] 20091013 Re: Duplicate CVE assignment notification [was: CVE id request: django]
MISC	http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/15df9e45118dfc51/
CONFIRM	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550457
CONFIRM	http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/oct/09/security/
DEBIAN	DSA-1905
BID	36655
SECUNIA	36948
SECUNIA	36968
VUPEN	ADV-2009-2871
XF	django-emailfield-urlfield-dos(53727)