Semi-closing a hole

Posted Apr 12, 2012 14:35 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
In reply to: Semi-closing a hole by cortana
Parent article: Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 security release

> So, we'll only need to wait 5-10 more years

No problem, we've waited ~20 years for people to fix this bug (hash table collision DoS is a pretty old and well-known problem). We can wait 10 more for the fix to reach users. ;)