From: Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:52:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Backport checkin:
X-Git-Tag: v2.4.1c1~135
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1dc4b8449ad1f5f9e81758f8a4952fe3720a6d5d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Backport checkin:
Add NEWS entry about bug #1076985.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f832b2d68e83..d5c230285a77 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ Library
   extended or overridden by subclasses.  Formerly, the subclassed method would
   be ignored by the rest of the module.  (Bug #1078905).
 
+- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
+  once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
+  tokenizer with very long source lines.
+
 
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