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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-03-29 16:18:33 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-03-29 16:18:33 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 70682 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r70682 | mark.dickinson | 2009-03-29 17:17:16 +0100 (Sun, 29 Mar 2009) | 3 lines Issue #532631: Add paranoid check to avoid potential buffer overflow on systems with sizeof(int) > 4. ........
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-rw-r--r--Objects/stringobject.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 84e107b..8916552 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -4336,6 +4336,15 @@ formatfloat(char *buf, size_t buflen, int flags,
}
if (prec < 0)
prec = 6;
+ /* make sure that the decimal representation of precision really does
+ need at most 10 digits: platforms with sizeof(int) == 8 exist! */
+ if (prec > 0x7fffffffL) {
+ PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError,
+ "outrageously large precision "
+ "for formatted float");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
if (type == 'f' && fabs(x) >= 1e50)
type = 'g';
/* Worst case length calc to ensure no buffer overrun:
@@ -4364,7 +4373,7 @@ formatfloat(char *buf, size_t buflen, int flags,
PyOS_snprintf(fmt, sizeof(fmt), "%%%s.%d%c",
(flags&F_ALT) ? "#" : "",
prec, type);
- PyOS_ascii_formatd(buf, buflen, fmt, x);
+ PyOS_ascii_formatd(buf, buflen, fmt, x);
return (int)strlen(buf);
}