summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Misc/NEWS.d/next
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Misc/NEWS.d/next')
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-03-30-16-29-51.bpo-36384.sCAmLs.rst6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-03-30-16-29-51.bpo-36384.sCAmLs.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-03-30-16-29-51.bpo-36384.sCAmLs.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f956cde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-03-30-16-29-51.bpo-36384.sCAmLs.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+:mod:`ipaddress` module no longer accepts any leading zeros in IPv4 address
+strings. Leading zeros are ambiguous and interpreted as octal notation by
+some libraries. For example the legacy function :func:`socket.inet_aton`
+treats leading zeros as octal notatation. glibc implementation of modern
+:func:`~socket.inet_pton` does not accept any leading zeros. For a while
+the :mod:`ipaddress` module used to accept ambiguous leading zeros.