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Message-ID: <164904189.73421255363891311.JavaMail.root@zmail01.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:11:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley@...re.org
Subject: Re:  CVE id request: django

Please use CVE-2009-3610

Thanks.

----- "Raphael Geissert" <geissert@...ian.org> wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> A vulnerability has been found in Django's forms library that can be
> used to
> perform DoS attacks via certain email addresses or URLs that make the
> validation regular expressions consume CPU resources.
> 
> The vulnerability is said to be being exploited on live
> installations.
> 
> References:
> http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/oct/09/security/
> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/15df9e45118dfc51/677e54bd6c6e283b
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00227.html
> 
> Please assign a CVE identifier.
> 
> Kind regards,
> - -- 
> Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
> www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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-- 
    JB

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