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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>2021-08-29 14:08:24 (GMT)
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bpo-44394: Update libexpat copy to 2.4.1 (GH-26945)
Update the vendored copy of libexpat to 2.4.1 (from 2.2.8) to get the fix for the CVE-2013-0340 "Billion Laughs" vulnerability. This copy is most used on Windows and macOS. Co-authored-by: Ɓukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
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+Update the vendored copy of libexpat to 2.4.1 (from 2.2.8) to get the fix
+for the CVE-2013-0340 "Billion Laughs" vulnerability. This copy is most used
+on Windows and macOS.