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Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0670-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0670-01
Posted Mar 21, 2013
Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0670-01 - The Django web framework is used by Horizon, the OpenStack Dashboard, which is a web interface for managing OpenStack services. A denial of service flaw was found in the Extensible Markup Language parser used by Django. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially-crafted request to an Horizon API, causing Horizon to consume an excessive amount of CPU and memory. A flaw was found in the XML parser used by Django. If a remote attacker sent a specially-crafted request to an Horizon API, it could cause Horizon to connect to external entities, causing a large amount of system load, or allow an attacker to read files on the Horizon server that are accessible to the user running Horizon.

tags | advisory, remote, web, denial of service
systems | linux, redhat
advisories | CVE-2013-0305, CVE-2013-0306, CVE-2013-1664, CVE-2013-1665
SHA-256 | f43133ae695ecbbd6f834f905823dd891d699fa224d25328a2c8c1c9c98db579

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0670-01

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: Django security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0670-01
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0670.html
Issue date: 2013-03-21
CVE Names: CVE-2013-0305 CVE-2013-0306 CVE-2013-1664
CVE-2013-1665
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1. Summary:

Updated Django packages that fix multiple security issues are now available
for Red Hat OpenStack Folsom.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

OpenStack Folsom - noarch

3. Description:

The Django web framework is used by Horizon, the OpenStack Dashboard, which
is a web interface for managing OpenStack services.

A denial of service flaw was found in the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
parser used by Django. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a
specially-crafted request to an Horizon API, causing Horizon to consume an
excessive amount of CPU and memory. (CVE-2013-1664)

A flaw was found in the XML parser used by Django. If a remote attacker
sent a specially-crafted request to an Horizon API, it could cause Horizon
to connect to external entities, causing a large amount of system load, or
allow an attacker to read files on the Horizon server that are accessible
to the user running Horizon. (CVE-2013-1665)

It was found that the history view in the bundled administrative web
interface in Django did not perform permission checks. An authenticated
user who can access the web interface could use this flaw to view the
changes to objects and data they would otherwise not have access to.
(CVE-2013-0305)

A flaw was found in the way Django handled formsets. A remote attacker
could use this flaw to submit a large number of forms, causing excessive
memory consumption. Note: The current version of OpenStack in Red Hat
OpenStack Folsom does not expose this vulnerability. (CVE-2013-0306)

This update also includes two hardening fixes to help protect against XML
entity and HTTP Host header poisoning attacks. (BZ#913039, BZ#913037)

All users of Horizon are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which resolve these issues. After installing the updated packages, the
httpd daemon must be restarted ("service httpd restart") for the update to
take effect.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

912982 - CVE-2013-1665 Python xml bindings: External entity expansion in Python XML libraries inflicts potential security flaws and DoS vulnerabilities
913037 - Django: Host header poisoning hardening
913039 - Django: XML entity attacks
913041 - CVE-2013-0305 Django: Data leakage via admin history log
913042 - CVE-2013-0306 Django: Formset denial-of-service
913808 - CVE-2013-1664 Python xml bindings: Internal entity expansion in Python XML libraries inflicts DoS vulnerabilities

6. Package List:

OpenStack Folsom:

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHOS/SRPMS/Django14-1.4.4-1.el6ost.src.rpm

noarch:
Django14-1.4.4-1.el6ost.noarch.rpm
Django14-doc-1.4.4-1.el6ost.noarch.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

7. References:

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-0305.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-0306.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-1664.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-1665.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2013 Red Hat, Inc.
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