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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2015-07-26 05:49:37 (GMT)
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2015-07-26 05:49:37 (GMT)
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Issue #24613: Calling array.fromstring() with self is no longer allowed
to prevent the use-after-free error. Patch by John Leitch.
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-rw-r--r--Modules/arraymodule.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/arraymodule.c b/Modules/arraymodule.c
index 3ed8a33..1d1f0d3 100644
--- a/Modules/arraymodule.c
+++ b/Modules/arraymodule.c
@@ -1380,6 +1380,11 @@ array_fromstring(arrayobject *self, PyObject *args)
int itemsize = self->ob_descr->itemsize;
if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s#:fromstring", &str, &n))
return NULL;
+ if (str == self->ob_item) {
+ PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
+ "array.fromstring(x): x cannot be self");
+ return NULL;
+ }
if (n % itemsize != 0) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
"string length not a multiple of item size");