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Fix a potential denial of service vulnerability in the :mod:`imaplib` module.
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When connecting to a malicious server, it could cause an arbitrary amount of
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memory to be allocated. On many systems this is harmless as unused virtual
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memory is only a mapping, but if this hit a virtual address size limit it could
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lead to a :exc:`MemoryError` or other process crash. On unusual systems or
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builds where all allocated memory is touched and backed by actual ram or
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storage it could've consumed resources doing so until similarly crashing.
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Fix a potential denial of service in the :mod:`imaplib` module. When connecting
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to a malicious server, it could cause an arbitrary amount of memory to be
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allocated. On many systems this is harmless as unused virtual memory is only a
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mapping, but if this hit a virtual address size limit it could lead to a
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:exc:`MemoryError` or other process crash. On unusual systems or builds where
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all allocated memory is touched and backed by actual ram or storage it could've
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consumed resources doing so until similarly crashing.

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