Advisories » MGASA-2021-0135

Updated python-django package fixes a security vulnerability

Publication date: 14 Mar 2021
Modification date: 14 Mar 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-23336

Description

Django contains a copy of urllib.parse.parse_qsl() which was added to backport
some security fixes to prevent web cache poisoning. A further security fix has
been issued recently such that parse_qsl() no longer allows using ; as a query
parameter separator by default (CVE-2021-23336).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28395
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/feb/19/security-releases/
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4742-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23336

SRPMS

8/core

• python-django-3.1.7-1.mga8