CVE-2015-2316: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
• Djangoproject Django: version 1.6 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 1.6.3 only; version 1.6.4 only; version 1.6.5 only; …
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.2 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.2 only

Published 2015-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.