SB2014042214 - Fedora EPEL 6 update for Django14

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SB2014042214 - Fedora EPEL 6 update for Django14

Published: April 22, 2014 Updated: April 24, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2014042214
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0473)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.


2) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0474)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

The (1) FilePathField, (2) GenericIPAddressField, and (3) IPAddressField model field classes in Django before 1.4.11, 1.5.x before 1.5.6, 1.6.x before 1.6.3, and 1.7.x before 1.7 beta 2 do not properly perform type conversion, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact and vectors, related to "MySQL typecasting."


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References