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$NetBSD: patch-bb,v 1.3 2011/03/28 15:58:15 drochner Exp $

Issue #11662 (CVE-2011-1521)

--- Lib/urllib2.py.orig	2008-04-22 21:17:18.000000000 +0000
+++ Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -555,6 +555,14 @@ class HTTPRedirectHandler(BaseHandler):
             return
         newurl = urlparse.urljoin(req.get_full_url(), newurl)
 
+        # For security reasons we do not allow redirects to protocols
+        # other than HTTP, HTTPS or FTP.
+        newurl_lower = newurl.lower()
+        if not (newurl_lower.startswith('http://') or
+                newurl_lower.startswith('https://') or
+		newurl_lower.startswith('ftp://')):
+            return
+
         # XXX Probably want to forget about the state of the current
         # request, although that might interact poorly with other
         # handlers that also use handler-specific request attributes