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| author | Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> | 2018-09-23 07:50:25 (GMT) |
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| committer | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-09-23 07:50:25 (GMT) |
| commit | 17b1d5d4e36aa57a9b25a0e694affbd1ee637e45 (patch) | |
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bpo-17239: Disable external entities in SAX parser (GH-9217)
The SAX parser no longer processes general external entities by default
to increase security. Before, the parser created network connections
to fetch remote files or loaded local files from the file system for DTD
and entities.
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
https://bugs.python.org/issue17239
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-11-18-30-55.bpo-17239.kOpwK2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-11-18-30-55.bpo-17239.kOpwK2.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8dd0fe8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-11-18-30-55.bpo-17239.kOpwK2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +The xml.sax and xml.dom.minidom parsers no longer processes external +entities by default. External DTD and ENTITY declarations no longer +load files or create network connections. |