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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2014-12-06 01:15:15 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2014-12-06 01:15:15 (GMT)
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add a default limit for the amount of data xmlrpclib.gzip_decode will return (closes #16043)
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Library
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+- Issue #16043: Add a default limit for the amount of data xmlrpclib.gzip_decode
+ will return. This resolves CVE-2013-1753.
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- Issue #16040: CVE-2013-1752: nntplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory. Patch by Jyrki
Pulliainen.