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authorZackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>2018-08-15 06:27:26 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2018-08-15 06:27:26 (GMT)
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closes bpo-34400: Fix undefined behavior in parsetok(). (GH-4439)
Avoid undefined pointer arithmetic with NULL.
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-08-14-03-52-43.bpo-34400.AJD0bz.rst1
-rw-r--r--Parser/parsetok.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-08-14-03-52-43.bpo-34400.AJD0bz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-08-14-03-52-43.bpo-34400.AJD0bz.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..768f5a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-08-14-03-52-43.bpo-34400.AJD0bz.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix undefined behavior in parsetok.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
diff --git a/Parser/parsetok.c b/Parser/parsetok.c
index 00d741d..b9c9fe8 100644
--- a/Parser/parsetok.c
+++ b/Parser/parsetok.c
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ parsetok(struct tok_state *tok, grammar *g, int start, perrdetail *err_ret,
}
else
started = 1;
- len = b - a; /* XXX this may compute NULL - NULL */
+ len = (a != NULL && b != NULL) ? b - a : 0;
str = (char *) PyObject_MALLOC(len + 1);
if (str == NULL) {
err_ret->error = E_NOMEM;