552638 – =dev-python/django-1.8.1: Session hijacking vulnerability (CVE-2015-3982)

Bug 552638 - =dev-python/django-1.8.1: Session hijacking vulnerability (CVE-2015-3982)

Summary: =dev-python/django-1.8.1: Session hijacking vulnerability (CVE-2015-3982)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

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Whiteboard:	~4 [noglsa]
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Reported:	2015-06-20 14:40 UTC by GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot
Modified:	2015-06-20 14:41 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2015-06-20 14:40:42 UTC

CVE-2015-3982 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3982):
  The session.flush function in the cached_db backend in Django 1.8.x before
  1.8.2 does not properly flush the session, which allows remote attackers to
  hijack user sessions via an empty string in the session key.

Comment 1 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-06-20 14:41:51 UTC

*django-1.8.2 (20 May 2015)

	  20 May 2015; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> +django-1.8.2.ebuild,
	  -django-1.8.1.ebuild, -django-1.8.ebuild:
	  Version Bump; drop vulnerable Versions, CVE-2015-3982

Maintainers, in the future please open a security bug when you are aware of a vulnerability.

Closing noglsa for ~arch only.