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Author alex
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Date 2010-04-25.18:05:09
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In Objects/stringlib/fastsearch.h the lines:

                if (!STRINGLIB_BLOOM(mask, s[i-1]))

and

                if (!STRINGLIB_BLOOM(mask, s[i-1]))

can read beyond the front of the array that is passed to it when the loop enters with i = 0.

I originally noticed this when porting the algorithm to PyPy (which has bounds checking :)), all tests pass if I simple add `if i-1 >= 0` before the conditional.  This doesn't appear to actually cause the algorithm to ever break, but it is unsafe.
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