[New-bugs-announce] [issue27537] Segfault Via Resource Exhaustion

[pablo sacristan]

New submission from pablo sacristan:

The code is very simple:
import sys
sys.setrecursionlimit(1<<20)
test=lambda test:test(test)
test(test)

It basically works by changing the recursion limit and then starting an infinite recursion, this quickly gives a segfault.
This can be used to crash python.

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messages: 270611
nosy: pabstersac
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Segfault Via Resource Exhaustion
versions: Python 2.7

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