gh-95778: CVE-2020-10735: Prevent DoS by very large int() (#96499)

Integer to and from text conversions via CPython's bignum `int` type is not safe against denial of service attacks due to malicious input. Very large input strings with hundred thousands of digits can consume several CPU seconds.

This PR comes fresh from a pile of work done in our private PSRT security response team repo.

Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes [Red Hat] <christian@python.org>
Tons-of-polishing-up-by: Gregory P. Smith [Google] <greg@krypto.org>
Reviews via the private PSRT repo via many others (see the NEWS entry in the PR).

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* Issue: gh-95778
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I wrote up [a one pager for the release managers](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KjuF_aXlzPUxTK4BMgezGJ2Pn7uevfX7g0_mvgHlL7Y/edit#). Much of that text wound up in the Issue. Backports PRs already exist. See the issue for links.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
index 6c4601d..9ff5545 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
@@ -289,6 +289,16 @@ class XMLRPCTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         check('<bigdecimal>9876543210.0123456789</bigdecimal>',
               decimal.Decimal('9876543210.0123456789'))
 
+    def test_limit_int(self):
+        check = self.check_loads
+        maxdigits = 5000
+        with support.adjust_int_max_str_digits(maxdigits):
+            s = '1' * (maxdigits + 1)
+            with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+                check(f'<int>{s}</int>', None)
+            with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+                check(f'<biginteger>{s}</biginteger>', None)
+
     def test_get_host_info(self):
         # see bug #3613, this raised a TypeError
         transp = xmlrpc.client.Transport()