Django could be made to insert arbitrary content into web forms.
It was discovered that Django did not properly sanitize the cookie value when applying CSRF protections resulting in a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain.
13 October 2010
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Django could be made to insert arbitrary content into web forms.
It was discovered that Django did not properly sanitize the cookie value when applying CSRF protections resulting in a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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