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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. |