[Python-Dev] [python-committers] Winding down 3.4

Larry Hastings larry at hastings.org
Tue Aug 21 01:36:00 EDT 2018


If they're really all wontfix, maybe we should mark them as wontfix, 
thus giving 3.4 a sendoff worthy of its heroic stature.

Godspeed, and may a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest,


//arry/

On 08/20/2018 05:52 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> > "shutil copy* unsafe on POSIX - they preserve setuid/setgit bits"
> > https://bugs.python.org/issue17180
>
> There is no fix. A fix may break the backward compatibility. Is it 
> really worth it for the last 3.4 release?
>
> > "XML vulnerabilities in Python"
> > https://bugs.python.org/issue17239
>
> Bug inactive since 2015. I don't expect that anyone will step in next 
> weeks with a wonderful solution to all XML issues. I suggest to ignore 
> this one as well, this issue is as old as XML support in Python and I 
> am not aware of any victim of these issues.
>
> Obviously, it would be "nice" to see a fix for these issues but it 
> seems like core devs are more interested to work on other topics and 
> other security issues.
>
>
> > "fflush called on pointer to potentially closed file" (Windows only)
> > https://bugs.python.org/issue19050
>
> It seems like two core devs are opposed to fix this issue.
>
> --
>
> There are open security issues on the HTTP server and urllib. I am 
> more concerned by these issues, but it's hard to fix them, there is a 
> risk of introducing regressions.
>
> Victor 

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