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authorMiss Skeleton (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2020-10-20 02:35:23 (GMT)
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bpo-42051: Reject XML entity declarations in plist files (GH-22760)
(cherry picked from commit 05ee790f4d1cd8725a90b54268fc1dfe5b4d1fa2) Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>
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+The :mod:`plistlib` module no longer accepts entity declarations in XML
+plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. This should not affect users as
+entity declarations are not used in regular plist files.