USN-5701-1: Jinja2 vulnerability
Publication date
26 October 2022
Overview
Jinja2 could be made to hang if it received specially crafted input.
Releases
Packages
- jinja2 - small but fast and easy to use stand-alone template engine
Details
Yeting Li discovered that Jinja2 incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
Yeting Li discovered that Jinja2 incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16.04 xenial | python-jinja2 – 2.8-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 | ||
| python3-jinja2 – 2.8-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 | |||
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