CVE-2024-38875

NameCVE-2024-38875
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 5.0 before 5.0.7. urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial of service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of brackets.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1076069

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
python-django (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye2:2.2.28-1~deb11u2vulnerable
bookworm, bookworm (security)3:3.2.19-1+deb12u1vulnerable
trixie3:4.2.16-1fixed
sid3:4.2.17-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
python-djangosource(unstable)3:4.2.14-11076069

Notes

[bookworm] - python-django <no-dsa> (Minor issue; intrusive to backport)
[bullseye] - python-django <postponed> (Minor issue; revisit after bookworm fix, if it is possible)
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/jul/09/security-releases/
https://github.com/django/django/commit/79f368764295df109a37192f6182fb6f361d85b5 (4.2.14)

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