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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2012-02-20 19:54:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2012-02-20 19:54:16 +0100 |
| commit | 2daf6ae2495c862adf8bc717bfe9964081ea0b10 (patch) | |
| tree | ebd7efe668e4f7842c6d51bdbde47b00f92a57db /Python/pythonrun.c | |
| parent | ec1712a1662282c909b4cd4cc0c7486646bc9246 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-2daf6ae2495c862adf8bc717bfe9964081ea0b10.tar.gz | |
Issue #13703: add a way to randomize the hash values of basic types (str, bytes, datetime)
in order to make algorithmic complexity attacks on (e.g.) web apps much more complicated.
The environment variable PYTHONHASHSEED and the new command line flag -R control this
behavior.
Diffstat (limited to 'Python/pythonrun.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | Python/pythonrun.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c index c4ae9211ff..4474e79b0f 100644 --- a/Python/pythonrun.c +++ b/Python/pythonrun.c @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ extern void _PyUnicode_Init(void); extern void _PyUnicode_Fini(void); extern int _PyLong_Init(void); extern void PyLong_Fini(void); +extern void _PyRandom_Init(void); #ifdef WITH_THREAD extern void _PyGILState_Init(PyInterpreterState *, PyThreadState *); @@ -91,6 +92,7 @@ int Py_FrozenFlag; /* Needed by getpath.c */ int Py_IgnoreEnvironmentFlag; /* e.g. PYTHONPATH, PYTHONHOME */ int Py_NoUserSiteDirectory = 0; /* for -s and site.py */ int Py_UnbufferedStdioFlag = 0; /* Unbuffered binary std{in,out,err} */ +int Py_HashRandomizationFlag = 0; /* for -R and PYTHONHASHSEED */ /* PyModule_GetWarningsModule is no longer necessary as of 2.6 since _warnings is builtin. This API should not be used. */ @@ -195,6 +197,12 @@ Py_InitializeEx(int install_sigs) Py_OptimizeFlag = add_flag(Py_OptimizeFlag, p); if ((p = Py_GETENV("PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE")) && *p != '\0') Py_DontWriteBytecodeFlag = add_flag(Py_DontWriteBytecodeFlag, p); + /* The variable is only tested for existence here; _PyRandom_Init will + check its value further. */ + if ((p = Py_GETENV("PYTHONHASHSEED")) && *p != '\0') + Py_HashRandomizationFlag = add_flag(Py_HashRandomizationFlag, p); + + _PyRandom_Init(); interp = PyInterpreterState_New(); if (interp == NULL) |