CVE-2015-5963

contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware in Django 1.8.x before 1.8.4, 1.7.x before 1.7.10, 1.4.x before 1.4.22, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session store consumption or session record removal) via a large number of requests to contrib.auth.views.logout, which triggers the creation of an empty session record.

• How can I get the fixes?
• What do statuses mean?

References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

• USN-2720-1
• Django vulnerability
• 18 August 2015

Other references

• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/aug/18/security-releases/
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5963