From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:10:54 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add news item for _winreg fix (SF bug 851056).
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Add news item for _winreg fix (SF bug 851056).
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0b02c9febb71..b205a1547f50 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -262,6 +262,11 @@ Build
 Windows
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+- 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.
+
 - The _ssl extension module was built using openssl-0.9.7b.
 
 - The Windows installer includes documentation in HTMLHelp format