Updated releases issued
Today the Django team is issuing two releases -- Django 1.3.7 and 1.4.5 -- to correct a packaging problem with yesterday's 1.3.6 and 1.4.4 releases. Both the 1.3.6 and 1.4.4 releases of Django contained stray .pyc files that caused "bad magic number" errors when running with some versions of Python. The 1.3.7 and 1.4.5 releases correct this, and also fix a bad documentation link in the project template settings.py file generated by manage.py startproject.and Security releases issued
These security releases fix four issues: one potential phishing vector, one denial-of-service vector, an information leakage issue, and a range of XML vulnerabilities. Here's a brief summary of each issue and its resolution: Issue: Host header poisoning: an attacker could cause Django to generate and display URLs that link to arbitrary domains. This could be used as part of a phishing attack. These releases fix this problem by introducing a new setting, ALLOWED_HOSTS, which specifies a whitelist of domains your site is known to respond to. Important: by default Django 1.3.6 and 1.4.4 set ALLOWED_HOSTS to allow all hosts. This means that to actually fix the security vulnerability you should define this setting yourself immediately after upgrading. Issue: Formset denial-of-service: an attacker can abuse Django's tracking of the number of forms in a formset to cause a denial-of-service attack. This has been fixed by adding a default maximum number of forms of 1,000. You can still manually specify a bigger max_num, if you wish, but 1,000 should be enough for anyone. Issue: XML attacks: Django's serialization framework was vulnerable to attacks via XML entity expansion and external references; this is now fixed. However, if you're parsing arbitrary XML in other parts of your application, we recommend you look into the defusedxml Python packages which remedy this anywhere you parse XML, not just via Django's serialization framework. Issue: Data leakage via admin history log: Django's admin interface could expose supposedly-hidden information via its history log. This has been fixed.So it was long past time to update django in fink.