CVE-2015-0221: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
  • Djangoproject Django: up to and including 1.4.17; version 1.6 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 1.6.3 only; version 1.6.4 only; …

Published 2015-01-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.