Pardus Linux Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Django, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-37 security@pardus.org.tr
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Date: 2008-09-06
Severity: 3
Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been reported in Django, which can be exploited by
malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
Description
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The vulnerability is caused due to the Django administration application
not performing any validity checks to verify requests when
re-authenticating the user. This can be exploited to delete and edit
data when a not logged-in user e.g. visits a malicious web site and is
then enticed to log in to the application.
Affected packages:
Pardus 2008:
Django, all before 1.0-15-2
Pardus 2007:
Django, all before 0.96.3-15-11
Resolution
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There are update(s) for Django. You can update them via Package Manager
or with a single command from console:
Pardus 2008:
pisi up Django
Pardus 2007:
pisi up Django
References
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* http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8116
* http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/sep/02/security
* http://secunia.com/advisories/31729
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Pınar Yanardağ
Pardus Security Team
http://security.pardus.org.tr