CVE-2015-0221

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The django.views.static.serve view in Django before 1.4.18, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 reads files an entire line at a time, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long line in a file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Django: through 1.4.17; 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5 (+7)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0026.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148485.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148608.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148696.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00035.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62285
http://secunia.com/advisories/62309
http://secunia.com/advisories/62718
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2469-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:036
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:109

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