
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner <at> haypocalc.com> writes:
Le Monday 21 July 2008 15:33:19 A.M. Kuchling, vous avez écrit :
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:45:39PM +0200, Victor Stinner wrote:
Hum... how can I say it? It's trivial to crash _sre So I blacklisted _sre.compile() in my fuzzer.
We should certainly try to fix those issues, then; people usually assume the re module is safe for use inside a sandbox and probably aren't careful enough to block importing of the _sre module.
Why is this function public? Is it used by re module? Only _sre module should be allowed to generated "regex bytecode".
The underscore at the beginning of _sre clearly indicates that the module is not recommended for direct consumption, IMO. Even the functions that don't themselves start with an underscore...