USN-6946-1: Django vulnerabilities

6 August 2024

Several security issues were fixed in Django.

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It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain strings in
floatformat function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a memory exhaustion. (CVE-2024-41989)

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled very large inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2024-41990)

It was discovered that Django in AdminURLFieldWidget incorrectly
handled certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode characters.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2024-41991)

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain JSON objects.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a potential SQL
injection. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.04
LTS. (CVE-2024-42005)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

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

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