Is python buffer overflow proof?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Marcus Wanner schrieb:
> On 8/2/2009 10:43 AM, Christian Heimes wrote:
>> Marcus Wanner wrote:
>>> I believe that python is buffer overflow proof. In fact, I think that 
>>> even ctypes is overflow proof...
>>
>> No, ctypes isn't buffer overflow proof. ctypes can break and crash a 
>> Python interpreter easily.
>>
>> Christian
>>
> I see. I thought that it said "invalid array index" when you try to 
> read/write outside of an array's bounds, though...


But you can cast the resulting pointer to an array of larger size, and 
there you are.

Diez