[Python-Dev] Hash collision security issue (now public)

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Thu Jan 5 20:49:53 CET 2012


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On 01/05/2012 02:14 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> 1) the security problem is not in CPython, but rather in web servers 
> that use dict inappropriately.

Most webapp vulnerabilities are due to their use of Python's cgi module,
which it uses a dict to hold the form / query string data being supplied
by untrusted external users.



Tres.
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