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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2015-04-10 22:31:01 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2015-04-10 22:31:01 (GMT)
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Issue #23529: Limit the size of decompressed data when reading from
GzipFile, BZ2File or LZMAFile. This defeats denial of service attacks using compressed bombs (i.e. compressed payloads which decompress to a huge size). Patch by Martin Panter and Nikolaus Rath.
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Library
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+- Issue #23529: Limit the size of decompressed data when reading from
+ GzipFile, BZ2File or LZMAFile. This defeats denial of service attacks
+ using compressed bombs (i.e. compressed payloads which decompress to a huge
+ size). Patch by Martin Panter and Nikolaus Rath.
+
- Issue #21859: Added Python implementation of io.FileIO.
- Issue #23865: close() methods in multiple modules now are idempotent and more