From: Brett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 23:58:40 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Warn that dbm.dumb.open() can crash Python (GH-6047)
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a1~2113
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=10485ebd40669d3e17ab4f477c8c898543bcccd1;p=python

Warn that dbm.dumb.open() can crash Python (GH-6047)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/dbm.rst b/Doc/library/dbm.rst
index 1abc36c04a..ab45cac830 100644
--- a/Doc/library/dbm.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/dbm.rst
@@ -361,6 +361,11 @@ The module defines the following:
    database has to be created.  It defaults to octal ``0o666`` (and will be modified
    by the prevailing umask).
 
+   .. warning::
+      It is possible to crash the Python interpreter when loading a database
+      with a sufficiently large/complex entry due to stack depth limitations in
+      Python's AST compiler.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.5
       :func:`.open` always creates a new database when the flag has the value
       ``'n'``.