""" General example for an attack against code like this: Py_DECREF(obj->attr); obj->attr = ...; here in Module/_json.c:scanner_init(). Explanation: if the first Py_DECREF() calls either a __del__ or a weakref callback, it will run while the 'obj' appears to have in 'obj->attr' still the old reference to the object, but not holding the reference count any more. Status: progress has been made replacing these cases, but there is an infinite number of such cases. """ import _json, weakref class Ctx1(object): encoding = "utf8" strict = None object_hook = None object_pairs_hook = None parse_float = None parse_int = None parse_constant = None class Foo(unicode): pass def delete_me(*args): print scanner.encoding.__dict__ class Ctx2(Ctx1): @property def encoding(self): global wref f = Foo("utf8") f.abc = globals() wref = weakref.ref(f, delete_me) return f scanner = _json.make_scanner(Ctx1()) scanner.__init__(Ctx2())