diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index c9053659b60..ce9d779e2d5 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -270,6 +270,11 @@ Tests Windows ------- +- 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 (modes r+, rb+, w+, wb+), and the most recent file operation before the truncate() call was an input operation. SF bug 801631.