From 245689c3b02326e1dba3203c8eab2b2a20df5373 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Peters Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:07:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] zlib-1.1.4 news. --- Misc/NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 14964e200626..d88c26606fe5 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ Core and builtins that have an attribute print_file_and_line, not just SyntaxErrors. This fixes the bug that no proper line number is given for bad \x escapes. +Extension modules + +- A security hole ("double free") was found in zlib-1.1.3, a popular + third party compression library used by some Python modules. The + hole was quickly plugged in zlib-1.1.4, and the Windows build of + Python 2.2.1 now ships with zlib-1.1.4. + Library - webbrowser: tightened up the command passed to os.system() so that -- 2.47.3