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  r81907 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-06-11 23:42:26 +0200 (ven., 11 juin 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
  the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
  (higher than 0x10000).
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
+  the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
+  (higher than 0x10000).
+
 - Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
   __hash__ in 3.x" warning.  Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
   arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning