[Python-Dev] XML DoS vulnerabilities and exploits in Python

[Tres Seaver]

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On 02/20/2013 09:08 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 
>> - make it possible to enable safer behaviour globally in at least
>> 2.7 and 3.3 (and perhaps in 2.6 and 3.2 security releases as well)
> 
> I want to be fairly conservative with 2.6.9.

I believe that the same rationale should apply as that for adding hash
randomization in 2.6.8:  this is at least as bad a vulnerability, with
many more vectors of attack.


Tres
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