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

[Glenn Linderman]

On 1/5/2012 11:49 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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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.

Yes, I understand that (and have some such web apps in production).

In fact, I pointed out urllib.parse and cgi as specific modules for 
which a proposed fix could be made without impacting the Python hash 
function.
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