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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_json/test_decode.py4
-rw-r--r--Misc/ACKS1
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Modules/_json.c5
4 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_json/test_decode.py b/Lib/test/test_json/test_decode.py
index 35c02de..591b2e2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_json/test_decode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_json/test_decode.py
@@ -91,5 +91,9 @@ class TestDecode:
self.assertEqual(self.loads(bom_in_str), '\ufeff')
self.assertEqual(self.json.load(StringIO(bom_in_str)), '\ufeff')
+ def test_negative_index(self):
+ d = self.json.JSONDecoder()
+ self.assertRaises(ValueError, d.raw_decode, 'a'*42, -50000)
+
class TestPyDecode(TestDecode, PyTest): pass
class TestCDecode(TestDecode, CTest): pass
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index f1ed07c..a19a68f 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1372,6 +1372,7 @@ Johannes Vogel
Alex Volkov
Martijn Vries
Sjoerd de Vries
+Guido Vranken
Niki W. Waibel
Wojtek Walczak
Charles Waldman
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 74c5e50..6fc6e2f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Fix arbitrary memory access in JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a negative second
+ parameter. Bug reported by Guido Vranken.
+
- Issue #21169: getpass now handles non-ascii characters that the
input stream encoding cannot encode by re-encoding using the
replace error handler.
diff --git a/Modules/_json.c b/Modules/_json.c
index 125101f..7d627cb 100644
--- a/Modules/_json.c
+++ b/Modules/_json.c
@@ -941,7 +941,10 @@ scan_once_unicode(PyScannerObject *s, PyObject *pystr, Py_ssize_t idx, Py_ssize_
kind = PyUnicode_KIND(pystr);
length = PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH(pystr);
- if (idx >= length) {
+ if (idx < 0)
+ /* Compatibility with Python version. */
+ idx += length;
+ if (idx < 0 || idx >= length) {
raise_stop_iteration(idx);
return NULL;
}