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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1999-08-03 19:41:10 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1999-08-03 19:41:10 (GMT)
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It turns out that modifying the environment strings is not safe.
Treat them as read-only, and make a copy as appropriately. This was first reported by Bill Janssend and later by Craig Rowland and Ron Sedlmeyer. This fix is mine.
Diffstat (limited to 'Modules')
-rw-r--r--Modules/posixmodule.c22
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 2a1efa6..947e169 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -290,19 +290,29 @@ convertenviron()
return NULL;
if (environ == NULL)
return d;
- /* XXX This part ignores errors */
+ /* This part ignores errors */
for (e = environ; *e != NULL; e++) {
+ PyObject *k;
PyObject *v;
char *p = strchr(*e, '=');
if (p == NULL)
continue;
+ k = PyString_FromStringAndSize(*e, (int)(p-*e));
+ if (k == NULL) {
+ PyErr_Clear();
+ continue;
+ }
v = PyString_FromString(p+1);
- if (v == NULL)
+ if (v == NULL) {
+ PyErr_Clear();
+ Py_DECREF(k);
continue;
- *p = '\0';
- if (PyDict_GetItemString(d, *e) == NULL)
- (void) PyDict_SetItemString(d, *e, v);
- *p = '=';
+ }
+ if (PyDict_GetItem(d, k) == NULL) {
+ if (PyDict_SetItem(d, k, v) != 0)
+ PyErr_Clear();
+ }
+ Py_DECREF(k);
Py_DECREF(v);
}
#if defined(PYOS_OS2)