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| author | Collin Anderson <cmawebsite@gmail.com> | 2016-03-11 21:36:08 -0500 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2016-09-26 12:54:36 -0400 |
| commit | d1bc980db1c0fffd6d60677e62f70beadb9fe64a (patch) | |
| tree | b8b80839fe39268bc01f4f39c3930ab5b55aaadf /docs | |
| parent | 07760d07146816bd9aa32786891bb24f467d713d (diff) | |
[1.9.x] Fixed CVE-2016-7401 -- Fixed CSRF protection bypass on a site with Google Analytics.
This is a security fix.
Backport of "refs #26158 -- rewrote http.parse_cookie() to better match
browsers." 93a135d111c2569d88d65a3f4ad9e6d9ad291452 from master
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.8.15.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.9.10.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/index.txt | 2 |
3 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.15.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e977cffbab --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/releases/1.8.15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +=========================== +Django 1.8.15 release notes +=========================== + +*September 26, 2016* + +Django 1.8.15 fixes a security issue in 1.8.14. + +CSRF protection bypass on a site with Google Analytics +====================================================== + +An interaction between Google Analytics and Django's cookie parsing could allow +an attacker to set arbitrary cookies leading to a bypass of CSRF protection. + +The parser for ``request.COOKIES`` is simplified to better match the behavior +of browsers and to mitigate this attack. ``request.COOKIES`` may now contain +cookies that are invalid according to :rfc:`6265` but are possible to set via +``document.cookie``. diff --git a/docs/releases/1.9.10.txt b/docs/releases/1.9.10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6321cd8d03 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/releases/1.9.10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +=========================== +Django 1.9.10 release notes +=========================== + +*September 26, 2016* + +Django 1.9.10 fixes a security issue in 1.9.9. + +CSRF protection bypass on a site with Google Analytics +====================================================== + +An interaction between Google Analytics and Django's cookie parsing could allow +an attacker to set arbitrary cookies leading to a bypass of CSRF protection. + +The parser for ``request.COOKIES`` is simplified to better match the behavior +of browsers and to mitigate this attack. ``request.COOKIES`` may now contain +cookies that are invalid according to :rfc:`6265` but are possible to set via +``document.cookie``. diff --git a/docs/releases/index.txt b/docs/releases/index.txt index f0d3c3c852..b9cce6a608 100644 --- a/docs/releases/index.txt +++ b/docs/releases/index.txt @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ versions of the documentation contain the release notes for any later releases. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + 1.9.10 1.9.9 1.9.8 1.9.7 @@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ versions of the documentation contain the release notes for any later releases. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + 1.8.15 1.8.14 1.8.13 1.8.12 |