Denial of Service Vulnerability in Django's static.serve view

CVE-2015-0221 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The django.views.static.serve view in Django before 1.4.18, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 reads files an entire line at a time, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long line in a file.

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