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CVE-2015-0221 Detail

Description

The django.views.static.serve view in Django before 1.4.18, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 reads files an entire line at a time, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long line in a file.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0026.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148485.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148608.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148696.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/62285 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/62309 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/62718 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2469-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:036 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:109 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/13/security/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Patch  Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-0221
NVD Published Date:
01/16/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.