[issue20515] Null pointer dereference in tkinter module

[Christian Heimes]

New submission from Christian Heimes:

varname_converter() doesn't check the return value of PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize() for NULL. The bug was introduced by http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/321b714653e3 / issue #20368

3. returned_null: Function "PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize(PyObject *, Py_ssize_t *)" returns null (checked 28 out of 30 times).[show details]
4. var_assigned: Assigning: "s" = null return value from "PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize(PyObject *, Py_ssize_t *)".
1399        s = PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize(in, &size);
5. Condition "size > 2147483647", taking false branch
1400        if (size > INT_MAX) {
1401            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError, "string is too long");
1402            return 0;
1403        }
CID 1167595 (#1 of 1): Dereference null return value (NULL_RETURNS)6. dereference: Dereferencing a pointer that might be null "s" when calling "strlen(char const *)"
1404        if (strlen(s) != size) {

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components: Tkinter
files: cid1167595.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 210276
nosy: christian.heimes, larry, serhiy.storchaka
priority: release blocker
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Null pointer dereference in tkinter module
type: crash
versions: Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file33918/cid1167595.patch

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