USN-6414-2: Django vulnerabilities

4 October 2023

Several security issues were fixed in Django.

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USN-6414-1 and USN-6378-1 fixed CVE-2023-43665 and CVE-2023-41164 in Django,
respectively. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Original advisory 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.

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain URIs with a very
large number of Unicode characters. A remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause Django to consume resources or crash, leading to a
denial of service.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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