[issue14471] Buffer overrun in winreg.c

[Kristján Valur Jónsson]

Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> added the comment:

Thanks.
Martin, what constitutes a security fix for Python?  For example, isn't it conceivable that one could place a long key into some registry setting used by python and thus interfere with its stack?  Aren't stack buffer overruns a classic security hole?

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