CVE-2012-3443 Information

Description

The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 completely decompresses image data during image validation which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by uploading an image file.

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2529 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:143 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/31/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/31/2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1560-1 https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/jul/30/security-releases-issued/