From 582d188e6e3487180891f1fc457a80dec8be26a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:38:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [3.6] bpo-17239: Disable external entities in SAX parser (GH-9217) (GH-9512) The SAX parser no longer processes general external entities by default to increase security. Before, the parser created network connections to fetch remote files or loaded local files from the file system for DTD and entities. Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> https://bugs.python.org/issue17239. (cherry picked from commit 17b1d5d4e36aa57a9b25a0e694affbd1ee637e45) Co-authored-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> https://bugs.python.org/issue17239 --- Doc/library/xml.dom.pulldom.rst | 14 +++++ Doc/library/xml.rst | 6 +- Doc/library/xml.sax.rst | 8 +++ Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst | 18 +++++- Lib/test/test_pulldom.py | 7 +++ Lib/test/test_sax.py | 60 ++++++++++++++++++- Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py | 13 ++++ Lib/xml/sax/expatreader.py | 2 +- .../2018-09-11-18-30-55.bpo-17239.kOpwK2.rst | 3 + 9 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-11-18-30-55.bpo-17239.kOpwK2.rst diff --git a/Lib/xml/sax/expatreader.py b/Lib/xml/sax/expatreader.py index 421358fa5b..5066ffc2fa 100644 --- a/Lib/xml/sax/expatreader.py +++ b/Lib/xml/sax/expatreader.py @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ class ExpatParser(xmlreader.IncrementalParser, xmlreader.Locator): self._lex_handler_prop = None self._parsing = 0 self._entity_stack = [] - self._external_ges = 1 + self._external_ges = 0 self._interning = None # XMLReader methods diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-11-18-30-55.bpo-17239.kOpwK2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-11-18-30-55.bpo-17239.kOpwK2.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8dd0fe8c1b --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-11-18-30-55.bpo-17239.kOpwK2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +The xml.sax and xml.dom.minidom parsers no longer processes external +entities by default. External DTD and ENTITY declarations no longer +load files or create network connections. -- 2.20.1