CVE-2010-4535 Information

Description

The password reset functionality in django.contrib.auth in Django before 1.1.3 1.2.x before 1.2.4 and 1.3.x before 1.3 beta 1 does not validate the length of a string representing a base36 timestamp which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a URL that specifies a large base36 integer.

Reference

http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/15032 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053041.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053072.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42715 http://secunia.com/advisories/42827 http://secunia.com/advisories/42913 http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/dec/22/security/ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/23/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/03/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45563 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1040-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0048 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0098 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665373