On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> wrote:
Second, I would like to help to fix all Python security issues. It looks like Python community isn't very reactive (proactive?) about security. Eg. a DoS was reported in smtpd server (integrated to Python)... 15 months ago. A patch is available but it's not applied in Python trunk.
The smtpd module is not meant to be used without modification. It is the responsibility of the application writer to decide the limitations of the emails they want to allow sending, and subsequently handle the case where emails overrun that limit. That the bug wasn't assigned to me outright (I am the maintainer of asyncore, asynchat, and smtpd) was an understandable mistake. - Josiah