[ python-Bugs-1296433 ] expat crash python

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Bugs item #1296433, was opened at 2005-09-20 07:10
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Category: XML
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 6
Submitted By: Mike Rozhnov (rozhnov)
>Assigned to: Brett Cannon (bcannon)
Summary: expat crash python

Initial Comment:
This simple script crash python.
Parsing of commented xml string work good.
(i.e. raised exception not crash python)
Buffer overflow during convertion to unicode?

Tested on Win XP and linux with kernel 2.4 with same
results.

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>Comment By: Brett Cannon (bcannon)
Date: 2006-06-30 11:06

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The fault is with Expat and not us.  I have submitted a bug
report with a possible patch at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1515266&group_id=10127&atid=110127
 .  I don't know what their turn-around time will be with
this so I will email python-dev to see how long people want
to wait on the Expat developers before we just push our own
patch for this.

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Comment By: Brett Cannon (bcannon)
Date: 2006-06-29 18:33

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Still seems to be failing even with the Expat 2.0 upgrade in
HEAD.

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Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2005-11-12 12:53

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I had recently upgraded to expat 1.95.8, so I was hopeful. 
But it still crashed for me on linux.  

I did get a better stack trace which allowed me to come up
with a patch that solves the problem and passes all the
tests.  The patch seems a bit odd and I think there might be
another problem going on here.  It would be great if someone
more familiar with xmlparse could take a look at the patch
and figure out if it's right or not.

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Comment By: Fredrik Lundh (effbot)
Date: 2005-11-12 03:05

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Works for me under 2.3.2 (with expat 1.95.6) and 2.4.1 (with
expat 1.95.8).

Try upgrading your expat and see if the problem goes away.

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Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2005-09-22 14:54

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I can reproduce on Linux with current CVS and expat
1.95.5-2.  Note the size of the data only needs to be
greater than 1024.

xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso8859'?><s>%s</s>" %
('a' * 1025)

I am not certain this problem is specific to Python.  It
might be down in expat only.  Need to investigate further.

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