diff -r 87440b63349b Misc/NEWS --- a/Misc/NEWS Mon Jun 27 12:30:48 2016 -0700 +++ b/Misc/NEWS Mon Jun 27 23:13:06 2016 +0200 @@ -41,14 +41,14 @@ Library when exiting, let the new chained one through. This avoids the PEP 479 bug described in issue25782. -- Issue #27278: Fix os.urandom() implementation using getrandom() on Linux. +- [Security] Issue #27278: Fix os.urandom() implementation using getrandom() on Linux. Truncate size to INT_MAX and loop until we collected enough random bytes, instead of casting a directly Py_ssize_t to int. - Issue #26386: Fixed ttk.TreeView selection operations with item id's containing spaces. -- Issue #22636: Avoid shell injection problems with +- [Security] Issue #22636: Avoid shell injection problems with ctypes.util.find_library(). - Issue #16182: Fix various functions in the "readline" module to use the @@ -231,9 +231,9 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- -- Issue #26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283. - -- Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smptlib, CVE-2016-0772. Reported by Team +- [Security] Issue #26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283. + +- [Security] Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smptlib, CVE-2016-0772. Reported by Team Oststrom - Issue #21386: Implement missing IPv4Address.is_global property. It was @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ Library - Issue #21313: Fix the "platform" module to tolerate when sys.version contains truncated build information. -- Issue #26839: On Linux, :func:`os.urandom` now calls ``getrandom()`` with +- [Security] Issue #26839: On Linux, :func:`os.urandom` now calls ``getrandom()`` with ``GRND_NONBLOCK`` to fall back on reading ``/dev/urandom`` if the urandom entropy pool is not initialized yet. Patch written by Colm Buckley. @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ Library - Issue #24838: tarfile's ustar and gnu formats now correctly calculate name and link field limits for multibyte character encodings like utf-8. -- Issue #26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with http.server on +- [Security] Issue #26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with http.server on Windows. This fixes a regression that was introduced in 3.3.4rc1 and 3.4.0rc1. Based on patch by Philipp Hagemeister. @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ Library - Issue #26560: Avoid potential ValueError in BaseHandler.start_response. Initial patch by Peter Inglesby. -- Issue #26313: ssl.py _load_windows_store_certs fails if windows cert store +- [Security] Issue #26313: ssl.py _load_windows_store_certs fails if windows cert store is empty. Patch by Baji. - Issue #26569: Fix :func:`pyclbr.readmodule` and :func:`pyclbr.readmodule_ex` @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ Library the connected socket) when verify_request() returns false. Patch by Aviv Palivoda. -- Issue #25939: On Windows open the cert store readonly in ssl.enum_certificates. +- [Security] Issue #25939: On Windows open the cert store readonly in ssl.enum_certificates. - Issue #25995: os.walk() no longer uses FDs proportional to the tree depth.