Re: Is python buffer overflow proof?

Gabriel Genellina
2009-08-04T08:48:54+00:00

 
En Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:06:06 -0300, John Nagle <nagle@animats.com>  =

escribi=F3:
> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>> En Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:04:53 -0300, sturlamolden  =

>> <sturlamolden@yahoo.no> escribi=F3:
>>
>>> On 2 Aug, 15:50, Jizzai <jiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is a -pure- python program buffer overflow proof?
>>>> For example in C++ you can declare a char[9] to hold user input.
>>>> If the user inputs 10+ chars a buffer overflow occurs.

>     A more useful question is whether the standard libraries are being
> run through any of the commercial static checkers for possible buffer
> overflows.

In the past the Python source code was checked with valgrind and some  =

coverity tools; I don't know the current status.


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