Vigil@nce - Django: memory corruption via django.utils.numberformat.format
April 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on service,
denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 13/02/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a memory corruption via
django.utils.numberformat.format() of Django, in order to trigger
a denial of service, and possibly to run code.
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