March 4, 2024, 4:14 p.m. |

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USN-6674-1 fixed a vulnerability in Django. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

Seokchan Yoon discovered that the Django Truncator function incorrectly
handled very long HTML input. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Django to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.

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