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26th October 2007 - Link Blog

Django security fix released. Django’s internationalisation system has a denial of service hole in it; you’re vulnerable if you are using the i18n middleware. Fixes have been made available for trunk, 0.96, 0.95 and 0.91.

Posted 26th October 2007 at 9:47 pm

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