Commit fd25acac authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

Add news item for _winreg fix (SF bug 851056).

parent a6a38ad5
...@@ -270,6 +270,11 @@ Tests ...@@ -270,6 +270,11 @@ Tests
Windows 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.
- file.truncate() could misbehave if the file was open for update - file.truncate() could misbehave if the file was open for update
(modes r+, rb+, w+, wb+), and the most recent file operation before (modes r+, rb+, w+, wb+), and the most recent file operation before
the truncate() call was an input operation. SF bug 801631. the truncate() call was an input operation. SF bug 801631.
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