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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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 Core and Builtins
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+- 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 #8950: (See also issue #5080).  Py_ArgParse*() functions now
   raise TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float
   is parsed using the 'L' code (for long long).  (All other integer