CVE-2007-5712 Information

Description

The internationalization (i18n) framework in Django 0.91 0.95 0.95.1 and 0.96 and as used in other products such as PyLucid when the USE_I18N option and the i18n component are enabled allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many HTTP requests with large Accept-Language headers.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/27435 http://secunia.com/advisories/27597 http://secunia.com/advisories/31961 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=749199 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1640 http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2007/oct/26/security-fix http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26227 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3660 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3661 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38143 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00243.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00257.html