"Nick Maclaren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |>
> |> Pure Python programs are not affected, but a review of the C
> implementation
> |> should be made to see if any (variant of) printf is used without a
> proper
> |> format. Anyway I doubt you could find something, because the
> vulnerability
> |> is so well known for ages.
>
> Not really.  There are LOTS of vulnerabilities that have been known
> for ages and are still legion.  The reason that this is unlikely is
> that it is both easy to spot and trivial to fix.

Yes... Anyway, unless someone actually *do* revise the code, if it's easy or
not has no importance. I think that some automated tools were used to find
problems, but I don't know if this specific vulnerability was searched.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina


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