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Mon Oct 9 18:57:41 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069280.html

Georg Brandl wrote:
> Georg Brandl wrote:
>> [ Bug http://python.org/sf/1541585 ]
>>
>> This seems to be handled like a security issue by linux distributors,
>> it's also a news item on security related pages.
>>
>> Should a security advisory be written and official patches be
>> provided?
> 
> May I ask again whether this is handled by the PSRT at all?

I agree that having an official Python security advisory would be good 
to see. I was also assuming automatically that fixed versions of Python 
2.4 and Python 2.3 would be released.

It's a serious issue for web-facing Python applications that handle 
unicode strings.

Regards,

Martijn

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