[New-bugs-announce] [issue8592] 'y' does not check for embedded NUL bytes

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

The documentation for the 'y' format (PyArg_ParseTuple and friends) states that:

« The bytes object must not contain embedded NUL bytes; if it does, a TypeError exception is raised. »

But, reading Python/getargs.c, the strlen() check is actually missing in the code for 'y'.

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assignee: loewis
components: Interpreter Core
messages: 104734
nosy: loewis, pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: 'y' does not check for embedded NUL bytes
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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