CVE-2007-5712

Description

The internationalization (i18n) framework in Django 0.91, 0.95, 0.95.1, and 0.96, and as used in other products such as PyLucid, when the USE_I18N option and the i18n component are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many HTTP requests with large Accept-Language headers.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5712
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/412ed22502e11c50dbfee854627594f0e7e2c234
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/7dd2dd08a79e388732ce00e2b5514f15bd6d0f6f
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/8bc36e726c9e8c75c681d3ad232df8e882aaac81
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38143
• https://github.com/django/django
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2007-1.yaml
• https://web.archive.org/web/20091201070224/http://secunia.com/advisories/27435
• https://web.archive.org/web/20111224195100/http://secunia.com/advisories/27597
• https://web.archive.org/web/20111229085535/http://secunia.com/advisories/31961
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200228183657/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26227
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00243.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00257.html
• http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=749199
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1640
• http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2007/oct/26/security-fix
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27435
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26227
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27597
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31961
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3660
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3661
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5712