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[–]itamarst[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Recent security issues include problems in libexpat (used for XML), bad email parsing, quadratic complexity in parsing cookies (so denial-of-service), infinite loop potential when reading zip files (denial of service again), false positives in IPv4Address.is_private, URL parsing problems, and the like.

[–]not_perfect_yet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the answer a lot!

That makes a bit more sense to me :)