Python pickle is what other framework calls serialization, marshalling etc. When you hear pickling, think marshalling ie. object graph to intermediate format, and when you hear unpickling, think ...

The standard pickle package provides an excellent default tool for serializing arbitrary python objects and storing them to disk. Standard python also includes broad set of data compression packages.

Evan Sultanik, principal computer security researcher with Trail of Bits, has unpacked the Python world’s pickle data format and found it distasteful. He is not the first to do so, and acknowledges as ...

The popular Python Pickle serialization format, which is common for distributing AI models, offers ways for attackers to inject malicious code that will be executed on computers when loading models ...

Many machine learning (ML) models are Python pickle files under the hood, and it makes sense. The use of pickling conserves memory, enables start-and-stop model training, and makes trained models ...

AI frameworks, including Meta’s Llama, are prone to automatic Python deserialization by pickle that could lead to remote code execution. Meta’s large language model (LLM) framework, Llama, suffers a ...