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$NetBSD: patch-CVE-2012-1150-Misc_NEWS,v 1.1 2012/03/25 09:09:05 tron Exp $

Fix for CVE-2012-1150 taken from here:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6b7704fe1be1

--- Misc/NEWS.orig	2011-06-03 22:55:45.000000000 +0100
+++ Misc/NEWS	2012-03-25 09:51:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -901,6 +901,11 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
+  environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
+  service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types.  Patch
+  by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
+
 Library
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