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)
committerRaspbian forward porter <root@raspbian.org>
Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:41:14 +0000 (09:41 +0000)
commitab7c6392fe5a88779c5765eb49bb94efba736761
tree16d43b9f3b45c0f01b8f10f4a0904e637b945eeb
parent3d288f1d5b98e5ffefb27f8735a99b92708dfde9
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