[issue10876] Zipfile crashes when zip password is set to 610/844/numerous other numbers

2011-01-10 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: Well, the password-checking scheme uses a one-byte check against the zip header for consistency. So there is a (near) 1/256 chance of false positives, that is of bad passwords mistakenly detected as good; then the ZipFile class proceeds with

[issue10876] Zipfile crashes when zip password is set to 610/844/numerous other numbers

2011-01-09 Thread Kira Erethon
Kira Erethon shinjieret...@gmail.com added the comment: Update, tried this in another machine of mine, same exact code and this time it crashes at 68 -- title: Zipfile crashes when zip password is set to 610/844 - Zipfile crashes when zip password is set to 610/844/numerous other