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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2014-05-15 07:11:29 -0400
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2014-05-15 07:17:54 -0400
commitd39fcff11a152e37fbc9a0fb34216415ef2a03da (patch)
treec8525d34b409082c790013c38a78043a9dc64e55
parent37d6821d35074ccbf1b0deeeb03561b07dbafd45 (diff)
[1.4.x] Minor edits to latest release notes.
Backport of 860d31ac7a3bdd4b27db8b34b110b3d801ddaf8a from master
-rw-r--r--docs/releases/1.4.13.txt18
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.4.13.txt b/docs/releases/1.4.13.txt
index bcbe460af5..978f93580c 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.4.13.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.4.13.txt
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
-==========================
+===========================
Django 1.4.13 release notes
-==========================
+===========================
-*May 13, 2014*
+*May 14, 2014*
Django 1.4.13 fixes two security issues in 1.4.12.
-
Caches may incorrectly be allowed to store and serve private data
=================================================================
+
In certain situations, Django may allow caches to store private data
related to a particular session and then serve that data to requests
-with a different session, or no session at all. This can both lead to
-information disclosure, and can be a vector for cache poisoning.
+with a different session, or no session at all. This can lead to
+information disclosure and can be a vector for cache poisoning.
When using Django sessions, Django will set a ``Vary: Cookie`` header to
ensure caches do not serve cached data to requests from other sessions.
@@ -22,15 +22,15 @@ Explorer 6, and Internet Explorer 7 if run on Windows XP or Windows Server
types. Therefore, Django would remove the header if the request was made by
Internet Explorer.
-To remedy this, the special behaviour for these older Internet Explorer versions
+To remedy this, the special behavior for these older Internet Explorer versions
has been removed, and the ``Vary`` header is no longer stripped from the response.
In addition, modifications to the ``Cache-Control`` header for all Internet Explorer
-requests with a ``Content-Disposition`` header, have also been removed as they
+requests with a ``Content-Disposition`` header have also been removed as they
were found to have similar issues.
-
Malformed redirect URLs from user input not correctly validated
===============================================================
+
The validation for redirects did not correctly validate some malformed URLs,
which are accepted by some browsers. This allows a user to be redirected to
an unsafe URL unexpectedly.