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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2013-10-27 06:16:53 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2013-10-27 06:16:53 (GMT)
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Issue #17997: Change behavior of ``ssl.match_hostname()`` to follow RFC 6125,
for security reasons. It now doesn't match multiple wildcards nor wildcards inside IDN fragments.
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Library
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+- Issue #17997: Change behavior of ``ssl.match_hostname()`` to follow RFC 6125,
+ for security reasons. It now doesn't match multiple wildcards nor wildcards
+ inside IDN fragments.
+
- Issue #16039: CVE-2013-1752: Change use of readline in imaplib module to limit
line length. Patch by Emil Lind.