[1.11.x] Fixed CVE-2019-6975 -- Fixed memory exhaustion in utils.numberformat.format().

Thanks Sjoerd Job Postmus for the report and initial patch.
Thanks Michael Manfre, Tim Graham, and Florian Apolloner for review.

Backport of 402c0caa851e265410fbcaa55318f22d2bf22ee2 from master.

django/utils/numberformat.py

@@ -30,7 +30,20 @@ def format(number, decimal_sep, decimal_pos=None, grouping=0, thousand_sep='',
     # sign
     sign = ''
     if isinstance(number, Decimal):
-        str_number = '{:f}'.format(number)
+        # Format values with more than 200 digits (an arbitrary cutoff) using
+        # scientific notation to avoid high memory usage in {:f}'.format().
+        _, digits, exponent = number.as_tuple()
+        if abs(exponent) + len(digits) > 200:
+            number = '{:e}'.format(number)
+            coefficient, exponent = number.split('e')
+            # Format the coefficient.
+            coefficient = format(
+                coefficient, decimal_sep, decimal_pos, grouping,
+                thousand_sep, force_grouping,
+            )
+            return '{}e{}'.format(coefficient, exponent)
+        else:
+            str_number = '{:f}'.format(number)
     else:
         str_number = six.text_type(number)
     if str_number[0] == '-':

docs/releases/1.11.19.txt

@@ -5,3 +5,15 @@ Django 1.11.19 release notes
 *February 11, 2019*
 
 Django 1.11.19 fixes a security issue in 1.11.18.
+
+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.

tests/utils_tests/test_numberformat.py

@@ -60,6 +60,24 @@ class TestNumberFormat(TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(nformat(Decimal('1234'), '.', grouping=2, thousand_sep=',', force_grouping=True), '12,34')
         self.assertEqual(nformat(Decimal('-1234.33'), '.', decimal_pos=1), '-1234.3')
         self.assertEqual(nformat(Decimal('0.00000001'), '.', decimal_pos=8), '0.00000001')
+        # Very large & small numbers.
+        tests = [
+            ('9e9999', None, '9e+9999'),
+            ('9e9999', 3, '9.000e+9999'),
+            ('9e201', None, '9e+201'),
+            ('9e200', None, '9e+200'),
+            ('1.2345e999', 2, '1.23e+999'),
+            ('9e-999', None, '9e-999'),
+            ('1e-7', 8, '0.00000010'),
+            ('1e-8', 8, '0.00000001'),
+            ('1e-9', 8, '0.00000000'),
+            ('1e-10', 8, '0.00000000'),
+            ('1e-11', 8, '0.00000000'),
+            ('1' + ('0' * 300), 3, '1.000e+300'),
+            ('0.{}1234'.format('0' * 299), 3, '1.234e-300'),
+        ]
+        for value, decimal_pos, expected_value in tests:
+            self.assertEqual(nformat(Decimal(value), '.', decimal_pos), expected_value)
 
     def test_decimal_subclass(self):
         class EuroDecimal(Decimal):