From fbf74f2acc9c3bbd8f77cb0fc3672e83b11881a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Peters Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:06:01 +0000 Subject: News about zlib-1.1.4. --- Misc/NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 6611c5d..3f1abd8 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ Core and builtins Extension modules +- A security hole ("double free") was found in zlib-1.1.3, a popular + third party compression library used by some Python modules. The + hole was quickly plugged in zlib-1.1.4, and the Windows build of + Python now ships with zlib-1.1.4. + - pwd and grp return enhanced tuples now, with symbolic field names. - array.array is now a type object. A new format character -- cgit v0.12