Embedded python security

Robin Becker robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk
Wed Jan 16 06:17:44 EST 2002


In article <mailman.1011152424.12787.python-list at python.org>, Jason
Orendorff <jason at jorendorff.com> writes
.....
>
>But almost no matter what you do, the following code will peg the CPU
>and cause the lights in your building to dim for a moment, until the
>machine runs out of memory.
>
>  10**(10L**100)
>
>Short answer:  don't do it.
>
>## Jason Orendorff    http://www.jorendorff.com/
>
zope does attempt to prevent people doing nasty things, but they do
things like limiting loop/range etc. Not sure if the above is caught.
-- 
Robin Becker



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