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CVE-2024-38875

Publication date 9 July 2024

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 5.0 before 5.0.7. urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial of service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of brackets.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
python-django 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3:4.2.11-1ubuntu1.1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 3:4.2.4-1ubuntu2.3
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:3.2.12-2ubuntu1.12
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2:2.2.12-1ubuntu0.23
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

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Notes

alexmurray

upstream advises that only versions 4.2, 5.0 and 5.1 (plus main development branch) are affected but it is likely earlier versions may also be affected but upstream do not mention this as they are no longer maintained by them

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

Other references