Message312376
| Author | gvanrossum |
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| Recipients | gvanrossum, steve.dower |
| Date | 2018-02-19.22:14:15 |
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| Message-id | <1519078455.66.0.467229070634.issue32878@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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We received a report from a well-meaning security researcher who was confused by the non-zero and arbitrary value of st_ino in stat() results on Windows (where in Python 2 this was always zero). The researcher was worried that this was due to an uninitialized memory read. The actual cause is the way this field is filled with arbitary data: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Python/fileutils.c#L758 Let's make sure this is documented properly for all versions where we still update the docs. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2018-02-19 22:14:15 | gvanrossum | set | recipients: + gvanrossum, steve.dower |
| 2018-02-19 22:14:15 | gvanrossum | set | messageid: <1519078455.66.0.467229070634.issue32878@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
| 2018-02-19 22:14:15 | gvanrossum | link | issue32878 messages |
| 2018-02-19 22:14:15 | gvanrossum | create | |