Thorsten Kampe: > You cannot create "your own" buffer overflow in Python as you can in C > and C++ but your code could still be vulnerable if the underlying Python > construct is written in C.
Python's standard library does now include unsafe constructs. import ctypes x = '1234' # Munging byte 1 OK ctypes.memset(x, 1, 1) print(x) # Next line writes beyond end of variable and crashes ctypes.memset(x, 1, 20000) print(x) Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
