Is python buffer overflow proof?

[Marcus Wanner]

On 8/3/2009 3:45 AM, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> 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
Ah, that makes sense. I had forgotten about ctypes.cast().

Marcus