[issue16041] poplib: unlimited readline() from connection

[Barry A. Warsaw]

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment:

On Sep 30, 2013, at 08:41 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:

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>Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis added the comment:
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>> New changeset 7214e3324a45 by Barry Warsaw in branch '2.6':
>> - Issue #16041: CVE-2013-1752: poplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
>> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7214e3324a45
>> ...
>> --- a/Misc/NEWS
>> +++ b/Misc/NEWS
>> ...
>> +- Issue #16041: CVE-2013-1752: poplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
>> +  prevent readline() calls from consuming too much member.
>
>Maybe s/member/memory/ ?

Good catch, thanks.

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