[issue22583] Segmentation fault with string concatenation

2014-10-08 Thread Kevin Dyer
Kevin Dyer added the comment: Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation. Two questions: 1) Given that it's probably not an out-of-memory issue, is it possible that this could turn into something more malicious? (e.g., an arbitrary code execution vulnerability?) 2) It's not obvious to m

[issue22583] Segmentation fault with string concatenation

2014-10-08 Thread Kevin Dyer
New submission from Kevin Dyer: The following can be used to generate a file called mega_concat.py: N = 2**17 my_array = [] for i in range(N): my_array.append("\"\"") print '+'.join(my_array) Then, on Ubuntu 14.04, 32-bit: $ python mega_concat.py Segmentation

[issue22582] Segmentation fault with string concatenation

2014-10-08 Thread Kevin Dyer
New submission from Kevin Dyer: The following can be used to generate a file called ```mega_concat.py```: ```python N = 2**17 my_array = [] for i in range(N): my_array.append("\"\"") print '+'.join(my_array) ``` Then: ```console $ python mega_concat.py S

[issue22582] Segmentation fault with string concatenation

2014-10-08 Thread Kevin Dyer
Kevin Dyer added the comment: The following can be used to generate a file called ```mega_concat.py```: ```python N = 2**17 my_array = [] for i in range(N): my_array.append("\"\"") print '+'.join(my_array) ``` Then: ```console $ python mega_concat.py S