[Python-checkins] bpo-34879: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in bytesobject.c (GH-9683)

[Miss Islington (bot)]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6580e52b64cb207f03a1bf86a18f088b081c10f4
commit: 6580e52b64cb207f03a1bf86a18f088b081c10f4
branch: 3.6
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2018-10-02T23:34:05-07:00
summary:

bpo-34879: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in bytesobject.c (GH-9683)


formatfloat() was not checking if PyBytes_FromStringAndSize()
failed, which could lead to a null pointer dereference in
_PyBytes_FormatEx().
(cherry picked from commit 96c593279400693226d5a560c420ae0fcf1731b9)

Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz at gmail.com>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-02-22-55-11.bpo-34879.7VNH2a.rst
M Objects/bytesobject.c

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-02-22-55-11.bpo-34879.7VNH2a.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-02-22-55-11.bpo-34879.7VNH2a.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5775a219a273
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-02-22-55-11.bpo-34879.7VNH2a.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix a possible null pointer dereference in bytesobject.c.  Patch by Zackery
+Spytz.
diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index 26e59d1073c1..04ebe0b701e6 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ formatfloat(PyObject *v, int flags, int prec, int type,
     result = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(p, len);
     PyMem_Free(p);
     *p_result = result;
-    return str;
+    return result != NULL ? str : NULL;
 }
 
 static PyObject *