[issue37495] socket.inet_aton parsing issue on some libc versions

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[issue37495] socket.inet_aton parsing issue on some libc versions

New submission from Dominik Czarnota : The socket.inet_aton Python function uses libc's inet_aton function. This, on some implementations, for example the latest GNU C Library (glibc 2.29 as of today), accepts whitespace with trailing characters after a valid IP. An example can be seen below