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[3.12] gh-149079: Fix O(n^2) canonical ordering in unicodedata.normalize() (GH-149080)#150843

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Replace the insertion sort used for canonical ordering of combining characters with a hybrid approach: insertion sort for short runs (< 20) and counting sort for longer runs, reducing worst-case complexity from O(n^2) to O(n). This prevents denial of service via crafted Unicode strings with many combining characters in alternating CCC order.

(cherry picked from commit 991224b)

Co-authored-by: Seth Larson seth@python.org
Co-authored-by: ch4n3-yoon ch4n3.yoon@gmail.com
Co-authored-by: Seokchan Yoon 13852925+ch4n3-yoon@users.noreply.github.com
Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych stan@python.org
Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran 10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka storchaka@gmail.com
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…normalize() (pythonGH-149080)

Replace the insertion sort used for canonical ordering of combining
characters with a hybrid approach: insertion sort for short runs (< 20)
and counting sort for longer runs, reducing worst-case complexity from
O(n^2) to O(n). This prevents denial of service via crafted Unicode
strings with many combining characters in alternating CCC order.

(cherry picked from commit 991224b)

Co-authored-by: Seth Larson <seth@python.org>
Co-authored-by: ch4n3-yoon <ch4n3.yoon@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Seokchan Yoon <13852925+ch4n3-yoon@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <stan@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Maurycy Pawłowski-Wieroński <maurycy@maurycy.com>
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