Django 2.0.11 release notes¶
February 11, 2019
Django 2.0.11 fixes a security issue in 2.0.10.
CVE-2019-6975: Memory exhaustion in django.utils.numberformat.format()¶
If django.utils.numberformat.format() – used by contrib.admin as well
as the the floatformat, filesizeformat, and intcomma templates
filters – received a Decimal with a large number of digits or a large
exponent, it could lead to significant memory usage due to a call to
'{:f}'.format().
To avoid this, decimals with more than 200 digits are now formatted using scientific notation.
