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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2013-10-27 06:23:53 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2013-10-27 06:23:53 (GMT)
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Issue #16041: CVE-2013-1752: poplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
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Library
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+- Issue #16041: CVE-2013-1752: poplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
+ prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory. Patch by Jyrki
+ Pulliainen.
+
- 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.