CVE-2009-3695

NameCVE-2009-3695
DescriptionAlgorithmic complexity vulnerability in the forms library in Django 1.0 before 1.0.4 and 1.1 before 1.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted (1) EmailField (email address) or (2) URLField (URL) that triggers a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1905-1
NVD severitymedium
Debian Bugs550457

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
python-django (PTS)jessie1.7.11-1+deb8u3fixed
jessie (security)1.7.11-1+deb8u7fixed
stretch (security), stretch1:1.10.7-2+deb9u6fixed
bullseye, buster, buster (security)1:1.11.23-1~deb10u1fixed
sid2:2.2.7-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
python-djangosource(unstable)1.1.1-1medium550457
python-djangosourceetch(not affected)
python-djangosourcelenny1.0.2-1+lenny2

Notes

[etch] - python-django <not-affected> (introduced in 1.0)
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