[issue1217] infinite loop in re module

[Andres Riancho]

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					Andres Riancho
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dz0 at dz0cybsec:/tmp$ python
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Aug 16 2007, 02:03:40) 
[GCC 4.1.3 20070812 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-15)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import re
>>> re.findall( '.*://(.*):(.*)@.*' , file('a.txt').read() )

===!infinite loop here!===
===!execute "kill pid"!===

Terminated
dz0 at dz0cybsec:/tmp$



dz0 at dz0cybsec:/tmp$ dpkg -l python
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                              Version                          
Description
+++-=================================-=================================-==================================================================================
ii  python                            2.4.4-6                          
An interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version)
dz0 at dz0cybsec:/tmp$ 


dz0 at dz0cybsec:/tmp$ uname -a
Linux dz0cybsec 2.6.21-2-k7 #1 SMP Wed Jul 11 04:29:08 UTC 2007 i686
GNU/Linux
dz0 at dz0cybsec:/tmp$ 


See attached a.txt file.

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components: Regular Expressions
files: a.txt
messages: 56178
nosy: andresriancho
severity: normal
status: open
title: infinite loop in re module
type: resource usage
versions: Python 2.4

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