From 97d67924e3a3ac1bbe07d6abc02c233a330013f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nadeem Vawda Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:26:46 +0200 Subject: Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch. If the version of zlib used to compile the zlib module is incompatible with the one that is actually linked in, then calls into zlib will fail. This can leave attributes of the z_stream uninitialized, so we must take care to avoid segfaulting by trying to use an invalid pointer. Fix by Richard M. Tew. --- Misc/ACKS | 1 + Misc/NEWS | 4 ++++ Modules/zlibmodule.c | 8 +++++++- 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS index d345e54..add8c61 100644 --- a/Misc/ACKS +++ b/Misc/ACKS @@ -873,6 +873,7 @@ Monty Taylor Amy Taylor Anatoly Techtonik Mikhail Terekhov +Richard M. Tew Tobias Thelen James Thomas Robin Thomas diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 48ef326..86eea69 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch. + Fix by Richard M. Tew. + + What's New in Python 3.2.2 release candidate 1? =============================================== diff --git a/Modules/zlibmodule.c b/Modules/zlibmodule.c index ba0e59c..a1e605b 100644 --- a/Modules/zlibmodule.c +++ b/Modules/zlibmodule.c @@ -52,7 +52,13 @@ typedef struct static void zlib_error(z_stream zst, int err, char *msg) { - const char *zmsg = zst.msg; + const char *zmsg = Z_NULL; + /* In case of a version mismatch, zst.msg won't be initialized. + Check for this case first, before looking at zst.msg. */ + if (err == Z_VERSION_ERROR) + zmsg = "library version mismatch"; + if (zmsg == Z_NULL) + zmsg = zst.msg; if (zmsg == Z_NULL) { switch (err) { case Z_BUF_ERROR: -- cgit v0.12