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USN-6553-1: Pydantic vulnerability

12 December 2023

Pydantic could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

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Releases

Packages

  • pydantic - Data validation using Python type hints.

Details

Nina Jensen discovered that Pydantic incorrectly handled user input in the
date and datetime fields. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service via application crash. (CVE-2021-29510)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04

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

References