bz2.BZ2Decompressor reuse after error can cause a stack buffer overflow
bz2.BZ2Decompressor objects could be reused after a decompression error.
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bz2.BZ2Decompressor objects could be reused after a decompression error.
`xml.parsers.expat` and `xml.etree.ElementTree` use insufficient entropy for Expat hash-flooding protection, which allows a crafted XML document to trigger hash flooding.\r\n\r\nFully mitigating this vulnerability requir…
unicodedata.normalize() can take excessive CPU time when processing specially crafted Unicode input containing long runs of combining characters with alternating Canonical Combining Class values.
When tarfile extracts a link on a system that doesn't support links, it falls back to extracting a member from the archive.
The ftpcp() function in Lib/ftplib.py was not updated when CVE-2021-4189 was fixed.
To allow builds of Python to be run from an in-tree layout (rather than an installed file layout), the VPATH variable is defined at build time and used to locate certain landmarks - specifically, Modules/setup.local.