[issue14579] Vulnerability in the utf-16 decoder after error handling

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> added the comment:

> I think the same issue also applies to the ASCII decoder in 3.3.

No, the ASCII decoder is not affected by this vulnerability. In a loop,
in which unicode_decode_call_errorhandler is called, do not use any
cached and not-updatable data.

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