USN-4011-2: Jinja2 vulnerabilities

Publication date

6 June 2019

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Jinja2.


Packages

  • jinja2 - small but fast and easy to use stand-alone template engine

Details

USN-4011-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Jinja2. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Olivier Dony discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled str.format. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to escape the sandbox.
(CVE-2016-10745)

Brian Welch discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled str.format_map. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to escape the sandbox.
(CVE-2019-10906)

USN-4011-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Jinja2. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Olivier Dony discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled str.format. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to escape the sandbox.
(CVE-2016-10745)

Brian Welch discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled str.format_map. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to escape the sandbox.
(CVE-2019-10906)

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
14.04 trusty python-jinja2 –  2.7.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
python3-jinja2 –  2.7.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
12.04 precise python-jinja2 –  2.6-1ubuntu0.2
python3-jinja2 –  2.6-1ubuntu0.2

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