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Tip revision: 8d21aa21f2cbc6d50aab3f420bb23be1d081dac4 authored by Benjamin Peterson on 19 April 2020, 21:13:39 UTC
Add empty 2.7.18 NEWS file.
Add empty 2.7.18 NEWS file.
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2.7.18rc1.rst
.. bpo: 38945
.. date: 2019-12-01-22-44-40
.. nonce: ztmNXc
.. release date: 2020-04-04
.. section: Security
Newline characters have been escaped when performing uu encoding to prevent
them from overflowing into to content section of the encoded file. This
prevents malicious or accidental modification of data during the decoding
process.
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.. bpo: 38804
.. date: 2019-11-15-00-54-42
.. nonce: vjbM8V
.. section: Security
Fixes a ReDoS vulnerability in :mod:`http.cookiejar`. Patch by Ben Caller.
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.. bpo: 38535
.. date: 2019-10-20-12-43-48
.. nonce: ESMkVN
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fixed line numbers and column offsets for AST nodes for calls without
arguments in decorators.
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.. bpo: 38576
.. date: 2020-03-18-01-30-50
.. nonce: cvI68q
.. section: Library
Disallow control characters in hostnames in http.client, addressing
CVE-2019-18348. Such potentially malicious header injection URLs now cause a
InvalidURL to be raised.
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.. bpo: 27973
.. date: 2019-12-30-07-59-34
.. nonce: mgWXH1
.. section: Library
Fix urllib.urlretrieve failing on subsequent ftp transfers from the same
host.
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.. bpo: 38730
.. date: 2019-11-06-20-53-54
.. nonce: UQsW_r
.. section: Build
Fix problems identified by GCC's ``-Wstringop-truncation`` warning.
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.. bpo: 37025
.. date: 2019-10-04-03-46-36
.. nonce: tLheEe
.. section: Windows
``AddRefActCtx()`` was needlessly being checked for failure in
``PC/dl_nt.c``.
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.. bpo: 38295
.. date: 2019-12-17-03-43-04
.. nonce: hgDvlB
.. section: macOS
Prevent failure of test_relative_path in test_py_compile on macOS Catalina.
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.. bpo: 38540
.. date: 2019-10-21-09-24-03
.. nonce: 314N_T
.. section: C API
Fixed possible leak in :c:func:`PyArg_Parse` and similar functions for
format units ``"es#"`` and ``"et#"`` when the macro
:c:macro:`PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN` is not defined.