What YAML engine do you use?

Sion Arrowsmith siona at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue Jan 25 07:19:34 EST 2005


Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
>> I'm probably not thinking deviously enough here, but how are you
>> going to exploit an eval() which has very tightly controlled
>> globals and locals (eg. eval(x, {"__builtins__": None}, {}) ?
>try this:
>
>    eval("'*'*1000000*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2")

No thanks.

I guess my problem is a tendency view security issues from the
point of view of access to data rather than access to processing.

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