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[3.14] gh-150743: Limit trailer lines and interim responses read by http.client ...
authorGregory P. Smith <68491+gpshead@users.noreply.github.com>
Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:32:02 +0000 (12:32 -0700)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>
Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:32:02 +0000 (19:32 +0000)
commit84badb77f5bb26e51d9a5c478d0e3bfe7ab6eb6f
tree03521249db5e00b507c60b68a5f9d6df13a300da
parent7d6fc2bb9ab6c3f2a8bc7e623b281d48e954a741
[3.14] gh-150743: Limit trailer lines and interim responses read by http.client (GH-150749)

http.client read chunked-response trailer lines and skipped interim (1xx)
responses in unbounded loops, so a server streaming either forever would
hang the client even with a socket timeout set (data keeps arriving, so
the timeout never fires).

Trailer lines are now limited to max_response_headers (100 by default)
and interim responses to 100; HTTPException is raised past either limit.

Follow-up to gh-88188 for CVE-2021-3737, which bounded header lines
within an interim response but not these two sibling loops.

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This issue was reported to us via [GHSA-w4q2-g22w-6fr4](https://github.com/python/cpython/security/advisories/GHSA-w4q2-g22w-6fr4)
Lib/http/client.py
Lib/test/test_httplib.py
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2026-05-30-00-00-00.gh-issue-150743.httpdos.rst [new file with mode: 0644]