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CVE-2013-1443

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Entered Topic
2013-09-22 django -- denial-of-service via large passwords

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2013-1443
Phase Assigned(20130126)

Description

The authentication framework (django.contrib.auth) in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.8, 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password which is then hashed.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [django-developers] 20130914 Set a reasonable upper bound on password length
CONFIRM https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security/
DEBIAN DSA-2758
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:1541
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:1685