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Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2022-11-04-09-29-36.gh-issue-98433.l76c5G.rst

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such as :mod:`urllib` http ``3xx`` redirects potentially allow for an attacker
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to supply such a name.
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Individual labels within a DNS name will also now raise an error during IDNA
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decoding if they are longer than 1000 characters given that each decoded DNS
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label must be 63 or fewer characters. Only an application presenting a hostname
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value consisting primarily of "Nothing" characters to be removed would run into
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of this limit. Applications relying on this are not expected to exist. See
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:rfc:`5894` section 6 and :rfc:`3491`.
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Individual labels within an IDNA encoded DNS name will now raise an error early
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during IDNA decoding if they are longer than 1000 encoded characters given that
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each decoded DNS label must be 63 or fewer characters. Only an application
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presenting a suspicious hostname value consisting primarily of "Nothing"
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characters to be removed would run into of this new limit. See :rfc:`5894`
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section 6 and :rfc:`3491`.

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