wok annotate python-ptyprocess/description.txt @ rev 25496
Up expat (2.5.0), CVE-2022-43680. Again.
| author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Fri Dec 02 10:26:08 2022 +0000 (18 months ago) |
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| Hans-G?nter@25221 | 1 Launch a subprocess in a pseudo terminal (pty), and interact with both |
| Hans-G?nter@25221 | 2 the process and its pty. |
| Hans-G?nter@25221 | 3 |
| Hans-G?nter@25221 | 4 Sometimes, piping stdin and stdout is not enough. |
| Hans-G?nter@25221 | 5 There might be a password prompt that doesn't read from stdin, output |
| Hans-G?nter@25221 | 6 that changes when it's going to a pipe rather than a terminal, |
| Hans-G?nter@25221 | 7 or curses-style interfaces that rely on a terminal. |
| Hans-G?nter@25221 | 8 If you need to automate these things, running the process in a pseudo |
| Hans-G?nter@25221 | 9 terminal (pty) is the answer. |