[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.5

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Feb 10 07:22:05 CET 2010


anatoly techtonik <techtonik <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Is it possible to make exploits out of crashers?

It depends which ones. If it's something like a buffer overflow or a memory
management problem, it may be possible to exploit it through carefully crafted
input (in order to make the interpreter execute arbitrary machine code). A
security expert would be able to shed more light on this.

Regards

Antoine.




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