[issue13703] Hash collision security issue

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

STINNER Victor wrote:
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> STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:
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> hash-attack.patch does never decrement the collision counter.

Why should it ? It's only used as local variable in the lookup function.

Note that the limit only triggers on a per-key basis. It's not
a limit on the total number of collisions in the table, so you don't
need to keep the number of collisions stored on the object.

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