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[Python-Dev] Should we fix these errors?

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Sat Jul 23 09:22:47 EDT 2016 
On 2016-07-22 16:36, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Somebody did some research and found some bugs in CPython (IIUC). The
> published some questionable fragments. If there's a volunteer we could
> probably easily fix these. (I know we already have occasional Coverity
> scans and there are other tools too (anybody try lgtm yet?) But this
> seems honest research (also Python leaves Ruby in the dust :-):
> 
> http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0414/

I had a closer look at the report. About half of the bugs, maybe more
are not in the C code of CPython but in OpenSSL code. I really mean
OpenSSL code, not _ssl.c and _hashopenssl.c. It's safe to assume that
they forgot to exclude external dependencies.

The issues in ASN1_PRINTABLE_type() [N2], BN_mask_bits() [N4 bn_lib.c,
digest.c, evp_enc.c], dh_cms_set_peerkey() [N5, dh_ameth.c] and
cms_env_set_version() [N6, cms_env.c] are all OpenSSL issues and should
be reported to OpenSSL.

Guido, did the company contact you or do you have Pavel Belikov's email
address?

Christian
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