From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 18:31:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add news about zlib 1.1.4 for the Windows installer.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.3~8
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1929e524a92106d82ae03a2d82d4a2ee852634a5;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add news about zlib 1.1.4 for the Windows installer.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0dc6ae73eccd..e7106fa80d33 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 What's New in Python 2.1.3?
-Release date: 08-April-2002
+Release date: 09-April-2002
 ===========================
 
 Core
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ Library
   circular references by using itself as the locator that gets passed
   to the content handler implementation.  [SF bug #535474]
 
+- 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 now ships with zlib-1.1.4.
+
 
 What's New in Python 2.1.2 (final)?
 ===================================