CVE-2024-41989

NameCVE-2024-41989
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.8 and 4.2 before 4.2.15. The floatformat template filter is subject to significant memory consumption when given a string representation of a number in scientific notation with a large exponent.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1078074

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
sid, trixie3:4.2.16-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
python-djangosource(unstable)3:4.2.15-11078074

Notes

[bookworm] - python-django <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - python-django <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/aug/06/security-releases/
https://github.com/django/django/commit/fc76660f589ac07e45e9cd34ccb8087aeb11904b/ (4.2.15)

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