bpo-44022: Fix http client infinite line reading (DoS) after a HTTP 100 Continue...
authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Wed, 5 May 2021 23:05:52 +0000 (16:05 -0700)
committerAndrej Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>
Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:37:52 +0000 (14:37 +0100)
commit39dd8dc1dd0113f2372ce3443296c989c7d23446
treecc151be363120adf51f5245e6d215425b2750cf9
parentc7b9834000d572e391e9c86188a096e07a0dbac9
bpo-44022: Fix http client infinite line reading (DoS) after a HTTP 100 Continue (GH-25916)

Fixes http.client potential denial of service where it could get stuck reading lines from a malicious server after a 100 Continue response.

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
(cherry picked from commit 47895e31b6f626bc6ce47d175fe9d43c1098909d)

Co-authored-by: Gen Xu <xgbarry@gmail.com>
Gbp-Pq: Name 0005-bpo-44022-Fix-http-client-infinite-line-reading-DoS-.patch
Lib/http/client.py
Lib/test/test_httplib.py