Control: forcemerge 1126002 -1

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 01:08:58PM +0100, Slavko wrote:
> Package: python3-urllib3
> Severity: serious
> Version: 1.26.12-1+deb12u2
> 
> Hi,
> 
> recent security upgrade breaks httplib3 usage and throws exception:
> 
>     AttributeError: 'HTTPResponse' object has no attribute 
> '_has_decoded_content'. Did you mean: 'decode_content'?
> 
> I call it from requests, but IMO it doesn't matter. As i found, that
> particular problem is introduced by CVE-2026-21441.patch, which
> contains:
> 
>     -            self.read()
>     +            self.read(
>     +                # Do not spend resources decoding the content unless
>     +                # decoding has already been initiated.
>     +                decode_content=self._has_decoded_content,
>     +            )
> 
> But that is only  place, where "_has_decoded_content" is in this
> version of urllib. I can only guess, that this is patch is either
> incomplete, or this part is not appropriate.

Yes, see the already filled #1126002. The patch is a bad packport and
will be fixed in a regression update.

Regards,
Salvatore

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