Denial of Service Vulnerability in Django's get_image_dimensions Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Django's get_image_dimensions Function

CVE-2012-3444 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The get_image_dimensions function in the image-handling functionality in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 uses a constant chunk size in all attempts to determine dimensions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process or thread consumption) via a large TIFF image.

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