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  r87873 | r.david.murray | 2011-01-08 21:35:24 -0500 (Sat, 08 Jan 2011) | 12 lines

  #5871: protect against header injection attacks.

  This makes Header.encode throw a HeaderParseError if it winds up
  formatting a header such that a continuation line has no leading
  whitespace and looks like a header.  Since Header accepts values
  containing newlines and preserves them (and this is by design), without
  this fix any program that took user input (say, a subject in a web form)
  and passed it to the email package as a header was vulnerable to header
  injection attacks.  (As far as we know this has never been exploited.)

  Thanks to Jakub Wilk for reporting this vulnerability.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d15a849..7af0b2c 100644
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+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
+  continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space
+  and looks like a header.  Since Generator uses Header to format all
+  headers, this check is made for all headers in any serialized message
+  at serialization time.  This provides protection against header
+  injection attacks.
+
 - Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
   on an existing file.