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Date:  Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:54:06 -0500
From:  Raphael Geissert <geissert@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject:  CVE id request: django

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Hi,

A vulnerability has been found in Django's forms library that can be used to
perform DoS attacks via certain email addresses or URLs that make the
validation regular expressions consume CPU resources.

The vulnerability is said to be being exploited on live installations.

References:
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/oct/09/security/
http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/15df9e45118dfc51/677e54bd6c6e283b
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00227.html

Please assign a CVE identifier.

Kind regards,
- -- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net

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