Denial of Service Vulnerability in Django's utils.html.strip_tags Function

CVE-2015-2316 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The utils.html.strip_tags function in Django 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1, when using certain versions of Python, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by increasing the length of the input string.

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