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authorMiss Skeleton (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2020-10-19 21:38:30 -0700
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bpo-42051: Reject XML entity declarations in plist files (GH-22760) (GH-22801) (GH-22804)
Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> (cherry picked from commit e512bc799e3864fe3b1351757261762d63471efc) Co-authored-by: Ned Deily <nad@python.org>
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+The :mod:`plistlib` module no longer accepts entity declarations in XML
+plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. This should not affect users as
+entity declarations are not used in regular plist files.