[issue28971] nntplib is broken when responses are longer than _MAXLINE

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

The limit to readline() was added to prevent consuming an excessive amount of memory. But this doesn't help in case of long multiline responses, since all lines are accumulated in a list in memory. A malicious server could cause a client consuming an excessive amount of memory by sending large number of short lines instead of one long line.

Christian, what are you think about this?

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