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CVE id request: django

From: Raphael Geissert <geissert () debian org>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:54:06 -0500

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Hi,

A vulnerability has been found in Django's forms library that can be used to
perform DoS attacks via certain email addresses or URLs that make the
validation regular expressions consume CPU resources.

The vulnerability is said to be being exploited on live installations.

References:
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/oct/09/security/
http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/15df9e45118dfc51/677e54bd6c6e283b
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00227.html

Please assign a CVE identifier.

Kind regards,
- -- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net

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CVE id request: django Raphael Geissert (Oct 10)
- Re: CVE id request: django Josh Bressers (Oct 12)
  - Re: Duplicate CVE assignment notification [was: CVE id request: django] Jan Lieskovsky (Oct 13)
    - Re: Duplicate CVE assignment notification [was: CVE id request: django] Steven M. Christey (Oct 13)
    - Re: Duplicate CVE assignment notification [was: CVE id request: django] Steven M. Christey (Oct 13)