[issue21448] Email Parser use 100% CPU

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Tue Aug 5 20:00:33 CEST 2014


Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Should this be categorized as a security issue? You could easily DoS a server with that (email.parser is used by http.client to parse HTTP headers, it seems).

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nosy: +christian.heimes, pitrou

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