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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/crashers/bogus_code_obj.py')
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diff --git a/Lib/test/crashers/bogus_code_obj.py b/Lib/test/crashers/bogus_code_obj.py index 5438d91..613ae51 100644 --- a/Lib/test/crashers/bogus_code_obj.py +++ b/Lib/test/crashers/bogus_code_obj.py @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ """ Broken bytecode objects can easily crash the interpreter. + +This is not going to be fixed. It is generally agreed that there is no +point in writing a bytecode verifier and putting it in CPython just for +this. Moreover, a verifier is bound to accept only a subset of all safe +bytecodes, so it could lead to unnecessary breakage. + +For security purposes, "restricted" interpreters are not going to let +the user build or load random bytecodes anyway. Otherwise, this is a +"won't fix" case. + """ import types |