commit 52ca516cacf75b430d399d638c1e00b49b0bb564
author Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> Fri May 21 17:22:43 2010 +0000
committer Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> Fri May 21 17:22:43 2010 +0000
tree 95b1f0eacea0a7bc72024ce5c1cf42cfd31f9642
parent 0a3b69ef0a8aa075bc0391f05b268095a77cda87

Merged revisions 81398 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r81398 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-21 19:12:38 +0200 (ven., 21 mai 2010) | 6 lines

  Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows
  embedders of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying
  sys.path.  This helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
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Misc/NEWS

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6a9c0f3..8e620cb 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -44,6 +44,14 @@
 
 - Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
 
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows
+  embedders of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying
+  sys.path.  This helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
+  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
+
 Library
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