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Django 4.2.6 release notes
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*October 4, 2023*
Django 4.2.6 fixes a security issue with severity "moderate" and several bugs
in 4.2.5.
CVE-2023-43665: Denial-of-service possibility in ``django.utils.text.Truncator``
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Following the fix for :cve:`2019-14232`, the regular expressions used in the
implementation of ``django.utils.text.Truncator``'s ``chars()`` and ``words()``
methods (with ``html=True``) were revised and improved. However, these regular
expressions still exhibited linear backtracking complexity, so when given a
very long, potentially malformed HTML input, the evaluation would still be
slow, leading to a potential denial of service vulnerability.
The ``chars()`` and ``words()`` methods are used to implement the
:tfilter:`truncatechars_html` and :tfilter:`truncatewords_html` template
filters, which were thus also vulnerable.
The input processed by ``Truncator``, when operating in HTML mode, has been
limited to the first five million characters in order to avoid potential
performance and memory issues.
Bugfixes
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* Fixed a regression in Django 4.2.5 where overriding the deprecated
``DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE`` and ``STATICFILES_STORAGE`` settings in tests caused
the main ``STORAGES`` to mutate (:ticket:`34821`).
* Fixed a regression in Django 4.2 that caused unnecessary casting of string
based fields (``CharField``, ``EmailField``, ``TextField``, ``CICharField``,
``CIEmailField``, and ``CITextField``) used with the ``__isnull`` lookup on
PostgreSQL. As a consequence, indexes using an ``__isnull`` expression or
condition created before Django 4.2 wouldn't be used by the query planner,
leading to a performance regression (:ticket:`34840`).
You may need to recreate such indexes created in your database with Django
4.2 to 4.2.5, as they contain unnecessary ``::text`` casting. Find candidate
indexes with this query:
.. code-block:: sql
SELECT indexname, indexdef
FROM pg_indexes
WHERE indexdef LIKE '%::text IS %NULL';