Opened 19 years ago

Closed 19 years ago

Last modified 18 years ago

#741 closed defect (fixed)

Session unpickler is not fault tolerant

Reported by: django@… Owned by: Adrian Holovaty
Component: Core (Other) Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Sessions store Python objects via pickle. Currently unpickling errors are not handled.

For example, if a client visits a site and a class instance is pickled into their session and then they later return to the site after the definition of that class has been removed or changed an ImportError may be thrown. Unpickling can potentially cause a whole range of Exceptions including UnpicklingError, AttributeError, EOFError, ImportError, and IndexError.

Probably it would be reasonable to use a broad try/except block and generate a new session if the session cannot be unpickled.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Adrian Holovaty, 19 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [1099]) Fixed #741 -- Made models.core.Session.get_decoded() fault-tolerant, in case of funky pickled data. Thanks, kieranholland

Note: See TracTickets for help on using tickets.
Back to Top