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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. |