Django 1.4.4 版本发行说明

Django 1.4.4 fixes four security issues present in previous Django releases in the 1.4 series, as well as several other bugs and numerous documentation improvements.

This is the fourth bugfix/security release in the Django 1.4 series.

Some parts of Django — independent of end-user-written applications — make use of full URLs, including domain name, which are generated from the HTTP Host header. Django’s documentation has for some time contained notes advising users on how to configure web servers to ensure that only valid Host headers can reach the Django application. However, it has been reported to us that even with the recommended web server configurations there are still techniques available for tricking many common web servers into supplying the application with an incorrect and possibly malicious Host header.

The default value for this setting in Django 1.4.4 is (matching any host), for backwards-compatibility, but we strongly encourage all sites to set a more restrictive value.

This host validation is disabled when DEBUG is True or when running tests.

The XML parser in the Python standard library is vulnerable to a number of attacks via external entities and entity expansion. Django uses this parser for deserializing XML-formatted database fixtures. This deserializer is not intended for use with untrusted data, but in order to err on the side of safety in Django 1.4.4 the XML deserializer refuses to parse an XML document with a DTD (DOCTYPE definition), which closes off these attack avenues.

Django’s XML serializer does not create documents with a DTD, so this should not cause any issues with the typical round-trip from to loaddata, but if you feed your own XML documents to the loaddata management command, you will need to ensure they do not contain a DTD.

Previous versions of Django did not validate or limit the form-count data provided by the client in a formset’s management form, making it possible to exhaust a server’s available memory by forcing it to create very large numbers of forms.

In Django 1.4.4, all formsets have a strictly-enforced maximum number of forms (1000 by default, though it can be set higher via the formset factory argument).

• Changed an SQL command syntax to be MySQL 4 compatible (#19702).
• Added backwards-compatibility with old unsalted MD5 passwords (#18144).