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Django 1.4.7 release notes
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*September 14, 2013*
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Django 1.4.8 fixes one security issue present in previous Django releases in
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the 1.4 series.
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Denial-of-service via password hashers
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In previous versions of Django no limit was imposed on the plaintext
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length of a password. This allows a denial-of-service attack through
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submission of bogus but extremely large passwords, tying up server
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resources performing the (expensive, and increasingly expensive with
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the length of the password) calculation of the corresponding hash.
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As of 1.4.8, Django's authentication framework imposes a 4096-byte
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limit on passwords, and will fail authentication with any submitted
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password of greater length.
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