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authorstratakis <cstratak@redhat.com>2020-07-08 20:39:41 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-07-08 20:39:41 (GMT)
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bpo-41175: Guard against a NULL pointer dereference within bytearrayobject (GH-21240)
The issue is triggered by the bytearray() + bytearray() operation. Detected by GCC 10 static analysis tool.
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diff --git a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
index 83c79b2..7035061 100644
--- a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
@@ -266,7 +266,9 @@ PyByteArray_Concat(PyObject *a, PyObject *b)
result = (PyByteArrayObject *) \
PyByteArray_FromStringAndSize(NULL, va.len + vb.len);
- if (result != NULL) {
+ // result->ob_bytes is NULL if result is an empty string:
+ // if va.len + vb.len equals zero.
+ if (result != NULL && result->ob_bytes != NULL) {
memcpy(result->ob_bytes, va.buf, va.len);
memcpy(result->ob_bytes + va.len, vb.buf, vb.len);
}