USN-6414-1: Django vulnerability
4 October 2023
Django could be made to consume resources or crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Releases
Packages
- python-django - High-level Python web development framework
Details
Wenchao Li discovered that the Django Truncator function incorrectly
handled very long HTML input. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Django to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 23.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-6414-2: python3-django, python-django-doc, python-django-common, python-django