CVE-2024-56374: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in IPv6 validation A potential denial-of-service vulnerability was discovered in the IPv6 validation functions of Django. The lack of an upper bound limit on the length of input strings passed to the private functions clean_ipv6_address and is_valid_ipv6_address resulted in excessive resource consumption and slower processing when large, malformed strings were provided. The django.forms.GenericIPAddressField form field was affected, while the django.db.models.GenericIPAddressField model field was…Read More
