[SECURITY] [DSA 2344-1] python-django-piston security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2344-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer
November 11, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : python-django-piston
Vulnerability : deserialization vulnerability
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2011-4103
Debian Bug : 647315

It was discovered that the Piston framework can deserializes untrusted
YAML and Pickle data, leading to remote code execution. (CVE-2011-4103)

The old stable distribution (lenny) does not contain a
python-django-piston package.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.2.2-1+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.2-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-django-piston packages.

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