diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 8c727ffa7c6..f7e218850db 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -1841,8 +1841,9 @@ Library - Issue #20968: unittest.mock.MagicMock now supports division. Patch by Johannes Baiter. -- Fix arbitrary memory access in JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a negative second - parameter. Bug reported by Guido Vranken. +- Issue #21529 (CVE-2014-4616): Fix arbitrary memory access in + JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a negative second parameter. Bug reported by Guido + Vranken. - Issue #21169: getpass now handles non-ascii characters that the input stream encoding cannot encode by re-encoding using the