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…ecurity process.

Backport of [16032] from trunk.

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jacobian committed Apr 17, 2011
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fix is forthcoming. We'll give a rough timeline and ask the reporter
to keep the issue confidential until we announce it.

* Halt all other development as long as is needed to develop a fix,
including patches against the current and two previous releases.
* Focus on developing a fix as quickly as possible and produce patches
against the current and two previous releases.

* Determine a go-public date for announcing the vulnerability and the fix.
To try to mitigate a possible "arms race" between those applying the
patch and those trying to exploit the hole, we will not announce
security problems immediately.

* Pre-notify everyone we know to be running the affected version(s) of
Django. We will send these notifications through private e-mail
which will include documentation of the vulnerability, links to the
relevant patch(es), and a request to keep the vulnerability
confidential until the official go-public date.
* Pre-notify third-party distributors of Django ("vendors"). We will send
these vendor notifications through private email which will include
documentation of the vulnerability, links to the relevant patch(es), and a
request to keep the vulnerability confidential until the official
go-public date.

* Publicly announce the vulnerability and the fix on the pre-determined
go-public date. This will probably mean a new release of Django, but
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