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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2003-11-30 22:10:15 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2003-11-30 22:10:15 (GMT)
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Add news item for _winreg fix (SF bug 851056).
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Windows
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+- The _winreg module could segfault when reading very large registry
+ values, due to unchecked alloca() calls (SF bug 851056). The fix is
+ uses either PyMem_Malloc(n) or PyString_FromStringAndSize(NULL, n),
+ as appropriate, followed by a size check.
+
- file.truncate() could misbehave if the file was open for update
(modes r+, rb+, w+, wb+), and the most recent file operation before
the truncate() call was an input operation. SF bug 801631.