From fd25acacaf77e3f22e4dd5e85699fae73cc29a7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:10:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add news item for _winreg fix (SF bug 851056). --- Misc/NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index c9053659b6..ce9d779e2d 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -270,6 +270,11 @@ Tests Windows ------- +- The _winreg module could segfault when reading very large registry + values, due to unchecked alloca() calls (SF bug 851056). The fix is + uses either PyMem_Malloc(n) or PyString_FromStringAndSize(NULL, n), + as appropriate, followed by a size check. + - file.truncate() could misbehave if the file was open for update (modes r+, rb+, w+, wb+), and the most recent file operation before the truncate() call was an input operation. SF bug 801631. -- 2.50.1