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Title: fileno argument to socket.socket is not validated
Type: Stage: resolved
Components: Versions: Python 3.8
process
Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: Dima.Tisnek, miss-islington
Priority: normal Keywords: patch

Created on 2018-12-05 08:41 by Dima.Tisnek, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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PR 10917 merged python-dev, 2018-12-05 08:43
Messages (2)
msg331096 - (view) Author: Dima Tisnek (Dima.Tisnek) * Date: 2018-12-05 08:41
socket.socket gained a fileno= kwarg the value of which is not checked if address family and socket type are both provided.

For example, following is accepted:

>>> socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM, fileno=-1234)
>>> socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM, fileno=1234)
>>> socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM, fileno=0.999)

Resulting in a socket object that will fail at runtime.

One of the implications is that it's possible to "steal" file descriptor, i.e. create a socket for an fd that doesn't exist; then some other function/thread happens to create e.g. socket with this specific fd, which can be "unexpectedly" used (or closed or modified, e.g. non-blocking changed) through the first socket object.

Additionally if the shorthand is used, the exception raised in these cases has odd text, at least it was misleading for me.

>>> socket.socket(fileno=get_wrong_fd_from_somewhere())
[snip]
OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor: 'family'

I thought that I had a bug whereby a string was passed in instead of an int fd;
Ultimately I had to look in cpython source code to understand what the "family" meant.

I volunteer to submit a patch!
msg332001 - (view) Author: miss-islington (miss-islington) Date: 2018-12-17 13:07
New changeset e991270363435da12049ecfe70bb69bd9c14b535 by Miss Islington (bot) (Dima Tisnek) in branch 'master':
bpo-35415: validate fileno argument to socket.socket (GH-10917)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e991270363435da12049ecfe70bb69bd9c14b535
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:59:08adminsetgithub: 79596
2018-12-17 13:08:34asvetlovsetstatus: open -> closed
resolution: fixed
stage: patch review -> resolved
2018-12-17 13:07:59miss-islingtonsetnosy: + miss-islington
messages: + msg332001
2018-12-05 08:43:39python-devsetkeywords: + patch
stage: patch review
pull_requests: + pull_request10156
2018-12-05 08:41:12Dima.Tisnekcreate