On 1/5/2012 11:49 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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On 01/05/2012 02:14 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
1) the security problem is not in CPython, but rather in web servers
that use dict inappropriately.
Most webapp vulnerabilities are due to their use of Python's cgi module,
which it uses a dict to hold the form / query string data being supplied
by untrusted external users.
Yes, I understand that (and have some such web apps in production).
In fact, I pointed out urllib.parse and cgi as specific modules for
which a proposed fix could be made without impacting the Python hash
function.
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