only catch AttributeError in hasattr() #9666
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 944df93..5d23464 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
+  occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
+
 - Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
   filesystem encoding.