From 224fc7917f395e868a3e65706f46d7a7600e0e3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:10:54 +0000
Subject: Add news item for _winreg fix (SF bug 851056).

---
 Misc/NEWS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0b02c9f..b205a15 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -262,6 +262,11 @@ Build
 Windows
 -------
 
+- The _winreg module could segfault when reading very large registry
+  values, due to unchecked alloca() calls (SF bug 851056).  The fix is
+  uses either PyMem_Malloc(n) or PyString_FromStringAndSize(NULL, n),
+  as appropriate, followed by a size check.
+
 - The _ssl extension module was built using openssl-0.9.7b.
 
 - The Windows installer includes documentation in HTMLHelp format
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