[New-bugs-announce] [issue16096] Get rid of dangerous integer overflow tricks

Serhiy Storchaka report at bugs.python.org
Sun Sep 30 20:34:11 CEST 2012


New submission from Serhiy Storchaka:

In several places such dungerous code used to check the integer overflow:

  size = n * itemsize;
  if (size / itemsize != n) raise exception...

Because these values are signed, this results in undefined behavior.

The proposed patches replace similar unsafe code to safe one. Note that the patches for the different versions are substantially different.

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components: Extension Modules, Interpreter Core
files: size_overflow-3.3.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 171657
nosy: mark.dickinson, storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Get rid of dangerous integer overflow tricks
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27360/size_overflow-3.3.patch

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