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[1.8.x] Fixed catastrophic backtracking in URLValidator.

Thanks João Silva for reporting the problem and Tim Graham for finding the
problematic RE and for review.

This is a security fix; disclosure to follow shortly.
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Shai Berger
2015-06-30 01:09:21 +03:00
committed by Tim Graham
parent 574dd5e0b0
commit 8f9a4d3a2b
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@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ The undocumented, internally unused ``validate_integer()`` function is now
stricter as it validates using a regular expression instead of simply casting
the value using ``int()`` and checking if an exception was raised.
Denial-of-service possibility in URL validation
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:class:`~django.core.validators.URLValidator` included a regular expression
that was extremely slow to evaluate against certain invalid inputs. This regular
expression has been simplified and optimized.
Bugfixes
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