New submission from Christian Heimes: This bug is similar to #16037 and a modified copy of #16038.
The imaplib module doesn't limit the amount of read data in its call to readline(). An erroneous or malicious IMAP server can trick the imaplib module to consume large amounts of memory. Suggestion: The imaplib module should be modified to use limited readline() with _MAXLINE like the httplib module. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 171242 nosy: christian.heimes priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: imaplib: unlimited readline() from connection type: resource usage _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16039> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
