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Author	pabstersac
Recipients	pabstersac
Date	2016-07-17.06:02:28
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
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Message-id	<1468735349.04.0.416587593882.issue27537@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The code is very simple: import sys sys.setrecursionlimit(1<<20) test=lambda test:test(test) test(test) It basically works by changing the recursion limit and then starting an infinite recursion, this quickly gives a segfault. This can be used to crash python.

The code is very simple:
import sys
sys.setrecursionlimit(1<<20)
test=lambda test:test(test)
test(test)

It basically works by changing the recursion limit and then starting an infinite recursion, this quickly gives a segfault.
This can be used to crash python.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2016-07-17 06:02:29	pabstersac	set	recipients: + pabstersac
2016-07-17 06:02:29	pabstersac	set	messageid: <1468735349.04.0.416587593882.issue27537@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2016-07-17 06:02:28	pabstersac	create