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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM USN-5701-1 Critical: Jinja2 Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Recent updates on a Jinja2 vulnerability in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM reveal serious risks of denial-of-service attacks from crafted inputs, urging users to patch
Jinja2 could be made to hang if it received specially crafted input.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service ubuntu quality assurance jinja2

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: python-jinja2 2.8-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 python3-jinja2 2.8-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2020-28493

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October 26, 2022

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