From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:07:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: zlib-1.1.4 news.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.1c1~62
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=245689c3b02326e1dba3203c8eab2b2a20df5373;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

zlib-1.1.4 news.
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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