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Author skrah
Recipients skrah
Date 2012-08-20.09:55:08
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Message-id <1345456530.94.0.929465650961.issue15736@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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A Py_ssize_t overflow can be constructed in _PySequence_BytesToCharpArray().
Patch attached.


Demonstration (requires revision >= 2af78f8a98e1):

Python 3.3.0b2+ (default:2af78f8a98e1, Aug 20 2012, 11:38:54)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux
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>>> import sys, _posixsubprocess
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>>> class Z(object):
...     def __len__(self):
...         return sys.maxsize
...     def __getitem__(self, i):
...         return b'x'
...
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>>> _posixsubprocess.fork_exec(1,Z(),3,[1, 2],5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17)
Segmentation fault
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