From: Antoine Pitrou Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:27:26 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when combined X-Git-Tag: v3.5.0a1~914 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0d548873262d1e61f6089eccf43e261b259ec96e;p=python Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when combined with non-standard cookie handling in some Web browsers. Reported by Sergey Bobrov. --- 0d548873262d1e61f6089eccf43e261b259ec96e diff --cc Misc/NEWS index f4d1056eb8,e411cdbaf4..802d12fa25 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@@ -132,9 -32,10 +132,13 @@@ Core and Builtin Library ------- + - Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when combined + with non-standard cookie handling in some Web browsers. Reported by + Sergey Bobrov. + +- Issue #20537: logging methods now accept an exception instance as well as a + Boolean value or exception tuple. Thanks to Yury Selivanov for the patch. + - Issue #22384: An exception in Tkinter callback no longer crashes the program when it is run with pythonw.exe.