[issue14579] Vulnerability in the utf-16 decoder after error handling

2012-04-24 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala added the comment: I have not tried the patch yet, but modifying the reproducer yields a different crash. This one seems to be a heap-based buffer overflow which is slightly more serious. In the reproducer, you just need to replace ascii() with str(). Again works on

[issue13703] Hash collision security issue

2012-01-04 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala added the comment: I am wondering if a CVE id has been assigned to this security issue yet? -- nosy: +Huzaifa.Sidhpurwala ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue13

[issue11197] information leakage with SimpleHTTPServer

2011-07-01 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala added the comment: This should have been lynx localhost:8000/../../../../../../../../etc/passwd v/s lynx http://localhost:8000/../../../../../../../../etc/passwd -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue11

[issue11197] information leakage with SimpleHTTPServer

2011-07-01 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala added the comment: It seems python was being blamed for what is essentially the fault of lynx. The following would translate into browsing files locally from the system and not from the web: lynx http://localhost:8000/../../../../../../../../etc/passwd The correct syntax