PSF-2018-8

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    PSF-2018-8

    Published: 16 May 2018Last Modified: 9 Oct 2025

    Summary: Email folding function Denial-of-Service

    Details: The email folding function enters an infinite loop if a header is longer than the policy maximum line length and contains many non-ASCII characters. Regression introduced in Python 3.6.4.

    References: https://bugs.python.org/issue33529

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2fef5b01e36a17e36fd7e65c4b51f5ede8880dda

    Affected versions

    2.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High