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Debian DLA-1303-1 : python-django security update

2018-03-09T00:00:00
ID DEBIAN_DLA-1303.NASL
Type nessus
Reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
Modified 2019-11-02T00:00:00

Description

Several functions were extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to catastrophic backtracking vulnerabilities in several regular expressions.

CVE-2018-7536

The django.utils.html.urlize() function was extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to catastrophic backtracking vulnerabilities in two regular expressions. The urlize() function is used to implement the urlize and urlizetrunc template filters, which were thus vulnerable.

The problematic regular expressions are replaced with parsing logic that behaves similarly.

CVE-2018-7537

If django.utils.text.Truncator’s chars() and words() methods were passed the html=True argument, they were extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due to a catastrophic backtracking vulnerability in a regular expression. The chars() and words() methods are used to implement the truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters, which were thus vulnerable.

The backtracking problem in the regular expression is fixed.

For Debian 7 

                                        
                                            #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-1303-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(107242);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/08/31 12:25:01");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-7536", "CVE-2018-7537");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1303-1 : python-django security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Several functions were extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs due
to catastrophic backtracking vulnerabilities in several regular
expressions.

CVE-2018-7536

The django.utils.html.urlize() function was extremely slow to evaluate
certain inputs due to catastrophic backtracking vulnerabilities in two
regular expressions. The urlize() function is used to implement the
urlize and urlizetrunc template filters, which were thus vulnerable.

The problematic regular expressions are replaced with
parsing logic that behaves similarly.

CVE-2018-7537

If django.utils.text.Truncator’s chars() and words() methods
were passed the html=True argument, they were extremely slow to
evaluate certain inputs due to a catastrophic backtracking
vulnerability in a regular expression. The chars() and words() methods
are used to implement the truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html
template filters, which were thus vulnerable.

The backtracking problem in the regular expression is fixed.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
1.4.22-1+deb7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-django packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00006.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/python-django"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Upgrade the affected python-django, and python-django-doc packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-django");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-django-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/03/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/03/09");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"python-django", reference:"1.4.22-1+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"python-django-doc", reference:"1.4.22-1+deb7u4")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
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