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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2014-09-16 22:23:55 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2014-09-16 22:23:55 (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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diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
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--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ Martin Bless
Pablo Bleyer
Erik van Blokland
Eric Blossom
+Sergey Bobrov
Finn Bock
Paul Boddie
Matthew Boedicker
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d8e61c30..398ed29 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ Library
strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and
``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI).
+- 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 #21766: Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths
before checking for a CGI script at that path.