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| author | Carlton Gibson <carlton.gibson@noumenal.es> | 2019-02-11 11:08:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Carlton Gibson <carlton.gibson@noumenal.es> | 2019-02-11 11:08:45 +0100 |
| commit | 402c0caa851e265410fbcaa55318f22d2bf22ee2 (patch) | |
| tree | 33014c300d325d9b688c2a8ee0745835622c54f9 /docs | |
| parent | c901a1775b63b5abc50e46aaee0c074d9bb3c481 (diff) | |
Fixed CVE-2019-6975 -- Fixed memory exhaustion in utils.numberformat.format().
Thanks Sjoerd Job Postmus for the report and initial patch.
Thanks Michael Manfre, Tim Graham, and Florian Apolloner for review.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.11.19.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/2.0.11.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/2.1.6.txt | 12 |
3 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.11.19.txt b/docs/releases/1.11.19.txt index cae22c4415..9ce48f26b2 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.11.19.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.11.19.txt @@ -5,3 +5,15 @@ Django 1.11.19 release notes *February 11, 2019* Django 1.11.19 fixes a security issue in 1.11.18. + +CVE-2019-6975: Memory exhaustion in ``django.utils.numberformat.format()`` +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +If ``django.utils.numberformat.format()`` -- used by ``contrib.admin`` as well +as the the ``floatformat``, ``filesizeformat``, and ``intcomma`` templates +filters -- received a ``Decimal`` with a large number of digits or a large +exponent, it could lead to significant memory usage due to a call to +``'{:f}'.format()``. + +To avoid this, decimals with more than 200 digits are now formatted using +scientific notation. diff --git a/docs/releases/2.0.11.txt b/docs/releases/2.0.11.txt index 969af23ecf..f6c4368baa 100644 --- a/docs/releases/2.0.11.txt +++ b/docs/releases/2.0.11.txt @@ -5,3 +5,15 @@ Django 2.0.11 release notes *February 11, 2019* Django 2.0.11 fixes a security issue in 2.0.10. + +CVE-2019-6975: Memory exhaustion in ``django.utils.numberformat.format()`` +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +If ``django.utils.numberformat.format()`` -- used by ``contrib.admin`` as well +as the the ``floatformat``, ``filesizeformat``, and ``intcomma`` templates +filters -- received a ``Decimal`` with a large number of digits or a large +exponent, it could lead to significant memory usage due to a call to +``'{:f}'.format()``. + +To avoid this, decimals with more than 200 digits are now formatted using +scientific notation. diff --git a/docs/releases/2.1.6.txt b/docs/releases/2.1.6.txt index f6c589848a..fea8209115 100644 --- a/docs/releases/2.1.6.txt +++ b/docs/releases/2.1.6.txt @@ -6,6 +6,18 @@ Django 2.1.6 release notes Django 2.1.6 fixes a security issue and a bug in 2.1.5. +CVE-2019-6975: Memory exhaustion in ``django.utils.numberformat.format()`` +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +If ``django.utils.numberformat.format()`` -- used by ``contrib.admin`` as well +as the the ``floatformat``, ``filesizeformat``, and ``intcomma`` templates +filters -- received a ``Decimal`` with a large number of digits or a large +exponent, it could lead to significant memory usage due to a call to +``'{:f}'.format()``. + +To avoid this, decimals with more than 200 digits are now formatted using +scientific notation. + Bugfixes ======== |