[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.5 (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Feb 10 15:14:55 CET 2010

anatoly techtonik writes:

Is it possible to make exploits out of crashers?

Depends on how you define "exploit". If your definition includes denial of service, yes, crashing a server application would count.

Privilege escalation is harder to achieve. The general answer is "yes", but each case is different, and requires expert analysis.