[Python-Dev] Deprecate invalid ctypes call protection on Windows (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue May 23 11:28:31 EDT 2017

On Mon, 22 May 2017 11:17:18 -0700 Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:

I'd like to propose a highly-accelerated deprecation period for this specific feature, starting in CPython 3.6.2 and being "completed" in 3.7.0, when we will hopefully move onto a newer libffi. In general, the "feature" is a misfeature anyway, since calling a native function with incorrect arguments is unsupported and a very easy way to cause information leakage or code execution vulnerabilities.

Agreed.

Does anyone have any reasons to oppose this? It already has votes from another Windows expert and the 3.6/3.7 Release Manager, but we wanted to see if anyone has a concern we haven't thought of.

+1 from me.

Regards

Antoine.

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