diff --git a/data/txt/sha256sums.txt b/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
index 78d5bfc189e..2ba72ee7592 100644
--- a/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
+++ b/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ bf77f9fc4296f239687297aee1fd6113b34f855965a6f690b52e26bd348cb353  lib/core/profi
 4eff81c639a72b261c8ba1c876a01246e718e6626e8e77ae9cc6298b20a39355  lib/core/replication.py
 bbd1dcda835934728efc6d68686e9b0da72b09b3ee38f3c0ab78e8c18b0ba726  lib/core/revision.py
 eed6b0a21b3e69c5583133346b0639dc89937bd588887968ee85f8389d7c3c96  lib/core/session.py
-f41eae63de373d61f92ad9a4697dfdaa7cc0a53ffc119d906171726e7c2553f3  lib/core/settings.py
+df96b0f2f935c583492c6331c6f222427976606af9a03ee5f05755a697ea7cec  lib/core/settings.py
 2bec97d8a950f7b884e31dfe9410467f00d24f21b35672b95f8d68ed59685fd4  lib/core/shell.py
 e90a359b37a55c446c60e70ccd533f87276714d0b09e34f69b0740fd729ddbf8  lib/core/subprocessng.py
 54f7c70b4c7a9931f7ff3c1c12030180bde38e35a306d5e343ad6052919974cd  lib/core/target.py
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ ce65f9e8e1c726de3cec6abf31a2ffdbc16c251f772adcc14f67dee32d0f6b57  lib/core/wordl
 99d0e94dd5fe60137abf48bfa051129fb251f5c40f0f7a270c89fbcb07323730  lib/__init__.py
 ba16fdd71fba31990dc92ff5a7388fb0ebac21ca905c314be6c8c2b868f94ab7  lib/parse/banner.py
 d757343f241b14e23aefb2177b6c2598f1bc06253fd93b0d8a28d4a55c267100  lib/parse/cmdline.py
-bcf0b32a730f1cdf097b00acf220eb216bc8eb4cb5d217a4a0d6ebe9f8086129  lib/parse/configfile.py
+d1fa3b9457f0e934600519309cbd3d84f9e6158a620866e7b352078c7c136f01  lib/parse/configfile.py
 9af4c86e41e50bd6055573a7b76e380a6658b355320c72dd6d2d5ddab14dc082  lib/parse/handler.py
 13b3ab678a2c422ce1dea9558668c05e562c0ec226f36053259a0be7280ebf92  lib/parse/headers.py
 b48edf3f30db127b18419f607894d5de46fc949d14c65fdc85ece524207d6dfd  lib/parse/html.py
diff --git a/lib/core/settings.py b/lib/core/settings.py
index 77910e1dd8a..09121dae255 100644
--- a/lib/core/settings.py
+++ b/lib/core/settings.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 from thirdparty.six import unichr as _unichr
 
 # sqlmap version (<major>.<minor>.<month>.<monthly commit>)
-VERSION = "1.8.4.2"
+VERSION = "1.8.4.3"
 TYPE = "dev" if VERSION.count('.') > 2 and VERSION.split('.')[-1] != '0' else "stable"
 TYPE_COLORS = {"dev": 33, "stable": 90, "pip": 34}
 VERSION_STRING = "sqlmap/%s#%s" % ('.'.join(VERSION.split('.')[:-1]) if VERSION.count('.') > 2 and VERSION.split('.')[-1] == '0' else VERSION, TYPE)
diff --git a/lib/parse/configfile.py b/lib/parse/configfile.py
index 006537888f3..19b6e8ec32a 100644
--- a/lib/parse/configfile.py
+++ b/lib/parse/configfile.py
@@ -68,7 +68,10 @@ def configFileParser(configFile):
 
     try:
         config = UnicodeRawConfigParser()
-        config.readfp(configFP)
+        if hasattr(config, "read_file"):
+            config.read_file(configFP)
+        else:
+            config.readfp(configFP)
     except Exception as ex:
         errMsg = "you have provided an invalid and/or unreadable configuration file ('%s')" % getSafeExString(ex)
         raise SqlmapSyntaxException(errMsg)