CVE-2026-53540: python-multipart: Negative Content-Length in parse_form buffers the entire body in memory
parse_form() did not validate the Content-Length header before using it to bound its chunked read of the request body. A negative Content-Length turned the bounded read into a read-until-EOF, so the entire body was loaded into memory in a single read instead of in fixed-size chunks.
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