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CVE-2012-3443 (GCVE-0-2012-3443)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-07-31 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05
VLAI
Summary
The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 completely decompresses image data during image validation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by uploading an image file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/jul/30/… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1560-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/31/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2529 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2012-07-30 00:00
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