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Django 1.4.4 release notes
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*February 19, 2013*
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Django 1.4.4 fixes four security issues present in previous Django releases in
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the 1.4 series, as well as several other bugs and numerous documentation
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improvements.
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This is the fourth bugfix/security release in the Django 1.4 series.
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Host header poisoning
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Some parts of Django -- independent of end-user-written applications -- make
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use of full URLs, including domain name, which are generated from the HTTP Host
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header. Django's documentation has for some time contained notes advising users
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on how to configure web servers to ensure that only valid Host headers can reach
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the Django application. However, it has been reported to us that even with the
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recommended web server configurations there are still techniques available for
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tricking many common web servers into supplying the application with an
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incorrect and possibly malicious Host header.
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For this reason, Django 1.4.4 adds a new setting, ``ALLOWED_HOSTS``, containing
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an explicit list of valid host/domain names for this site. A request with a
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Host header not matching an entry in this list will raise
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``SuspiciousOperation`` if ``request.get_host()`` is called. For full details
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see the documentation for the :setting:`ALLOWED_HOSTS` setting.
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The default value for this setting in Django 1.4.4 is ``['*']`` (matching any
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host), for backwards-compatibility, but we strongly encourage all sites to set
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a more restrictive value.
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This host validation is disabled when ``DEBUG`` is ``True`` or when running tests.
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XML deserialization
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The XML parser in the Python standard library is vulnerable to a number of
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attacks via external entities and entity expansion. Django uses this parser for
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deserializing XML-formatted database fixtures. This deserializer is not
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intended for use with untrusted data, but in order to err on the side of safety
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in Django 1.4.4 the XML deserializer refuses to parse an XML document with a
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DTD (DOCTYPE definition), which closes off these attack avenues.
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These issues in the Python standard library are CVE-2013-1664 and
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CVE-2013-1665. More information available `from the Python security team`_.
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Django's XML serializer does not create documents with a DTD, so this should
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not cause any issues with the typical round-trip from ``dumpdata`` to
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``loaddata``, but if you feed your own XML documents to the ``loaddata``
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management command, you will need to ensure they do not contain a DTD.
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.. _from the Python security team: https://blog.python.org/2013/02/announcing-defusedxml-fixes-for-xml.html
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Formset memory exhaustion
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Previous versions of Django did not validate or limit the form-count data
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provided by the client in a formset's management form, making it possible to
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exhaust a server's available memory by forcing it to create very large numbers
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of forms.
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In Django 1.4.4, all formsets have a strictly-enforced maximum number of forms
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(1000 by default, though it can be set higher via the ``max_num`` formset
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factory argument).
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Admin history view information leakage
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In previous versions of Django, an admin user without change permission on a
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model could still view the Unicode representation of instances via their admin
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history log. Django 1.4.4 now limits the admin history log view for an object
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to users with change permission for that model.
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Other bugfixes and changes
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* Prevented transaction state from leaking from one request to the next (#19707).
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* Changed an SQL command syntax to be MySQL 4 compatible (#19702).
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* Added backwards-compatibility with old unsalted MD5 passwords (#18144).
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* Numerous documentation improvements and fixes.
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