USN-7501-1 fixed a vulnerability in Django. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
Elias Myllymäki discovered that Django incorrectly handled stripping large sequences of incomplete HTML tags. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Django to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.
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