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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2014-09-16 22:45:36 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2014-09-16 22:45:36 (GMT)
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Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when
combined with non-standard cookie handling in some Web browsers. Reported by Sergey Bobrov.
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@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ Martin Bless
Pablo Bleyer
Erik van Blokland
Eric Blossom
+Sergey Bobrov
Finn Bock
Paul Boddie
Matthew Boedicker
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@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when combined
+ with non-standard cookie handling in some Web browsers. Reported by
+ Sergey Bobrov.
- Issue #21147: sqlite3 now raises an exception if the request contains a null
character instead of truncate it. Based on patch by Victor Stinner.