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Author kristjan.jonsson
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, kristjan.jonsson, loewis
Date 2012-04-02.09:16:07
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Thanks.
Martin, what constitutes a security fix for Python?  For example, isn't it conceivable that one could place a long key into some registry setting used by python and thus interfere with its stack?  Aren't stack buffer overruns a classic security hole?
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