[Python-Dev] We cannot fix all issues: let's close XML security issues (not fix them) (original) (raw)

Ryan Gonzalez rymg19 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 11:05:48 EDT 2018

Thought: what if there's a label on the bug tracker meaning roughly "we're probably not going to fix this anytime soon, but we won't mind someone stepping up"?

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 10:04 AM Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

FWIW I'm with Antoine here -- XML is still important and I'd like us to go the extra mile here, not just give up because the issues have been inactive for a long time. We can't control what PyYAML does, but for the stdlib XML code, the buck stops here, and we should do the responsible thing. > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 7:49 AM Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org> wrote: >>>> Le 06/09/2018 à 16:40, Victor Stinner a écrit : > > Le jeu. 6 sept. 2018 à 16:33, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> a > écrit : > >> If we consider fixing these issues to be desirable, then the issues > >> should be kept open. Closing issues because no-one is working on them > >> sounds a bit silly to me. > > > > I forgot to mention that closing these issues is my reply to Larry's > > call to fix 3 security issues: > > > > > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-August/006031.html > > > > Larry wrote "If they're really all wontfix, maybe we should mark them > > as wontfix, thus giving 3.4 a sendoff worthy of its heroic stature." >>> "wontfix" on 3.4 doesn't mean we won't fix them later, e.g. in 3.8. >>> > For these XML issues, the security vulnerabilities can also been seen > > as XML features. Loading an external DTD is part of the XML > > specification, as well as entity expansion. >>> That doesn't mean there shouldn't be any hard limits to expansion depth > or breadth. >>> Function calls are a Python feature, yet we limit the amount of > recursion allowed. >>> Regards >>> Antoine. > _________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >>>>> -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev at python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/rymg19%40gmail.com

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