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| author | Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org> | 2016-10-24 15:22:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2016-10-25 14:31:42 -0400 |
| commit | 4844d86c7728c1a5a3bbce4ad336a8d32304072b (patch) | |
| tree | 19f1389db21cb1272887a6767636c2833f6ec2e4 /docs/ref/settings.txt | |
| parent | 2ed85c18730fc8f1f527ba3dcbe0191f9a1b7564 (diff) | |
[1.9.x] Fixed CVE-2016-9013 -- Generated a random database user password when running tests on Oracle.
This is a security fix.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/ref/settings.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/settings.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt index a139f21eba..63aca2e978 100644 --- a/docs/ref/settings.txt +++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt @@ -814,7 +814,12 @@ Default: ``None`` This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used -when running tests. If not provided, Django will use a hardcoded default value. +when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. + +.. versionchanged:: 1.9.11 + + Older versions used a hardcoded default password. This was also changed + in 1.8.16 to fix possible security implications. .. setting:: TEST_TBLSPACE |