[Python-Dev] Fuzzing the Python standard library

Michael Selik mike at selik.org
Tue Jul 17 18:15:09 EDT 2018


On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:57 PM Jussi Judin <jjudin+python at iki.fi> wrote:

> Quick answer: undocumented billion laughs/exponential entity expansion
> type of an attack that is accessible through web through any library that
> uses fractions module to parse user input (that are actually available on
> Github).
>

Are you suggesting a warning in the fractions documentation to mention that
large numbers require large amounts of memory?
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