[Python-Dev] blocking 2.7

[Victor Stinner]

Le samedi 03 juillet 2010 12:17:16, Mark Dickinson a écrit :
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> 
wrote:
> > This is just a note that we have one bug blocking 2.7 final at the
> > moment: http://bugs.python.org/issue9144
> 
> I've just made http://bugs.python.org/issue7673 a release blocker too,
> I'm afraid.  It's a potential security vulnerability in the audioop
> module.  (CVE-2010-2089)

At least, Fedora consider it as a security vulnerability:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598197

I agree because the crash is caused by the input data.

> It's got a reviewed patch, and is ready to be committed

Thanks because my first patch was incomplete :-)

> but if you're not comfortable with fixing it this late
> then that's completely understandable.

In the worst case, a function rejects valid data. If I have to choose, I 
prefer to reject valid data than a security vulnerability. But audioop has 
tests and I don't think that my patch breaks anything :-)

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