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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2020-07-10 03:18:45 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-07-10 03:18:45 -0700
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parentbpo-37765: Add keywords to IDLE tab completions (GH-15138) (diff)
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bpo-41175: Guard against a NULL pointer dereference within bytearrayobject (GH-21240)
The issue is triggered by the bytearray() + bytearray() operation. Detected by GCC 10 static analysis tool. (cherry picked from commit 61fc23ca106bc82955b0e59d1ab42285b94899e2) Co-authored-by: stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-30-20-17-31.bpo-41175.acJoXB.rst2
-rw-r--r--Objects/bytearrayobject.c4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-30-20-17-31.bpo-41175.acJoXB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-30-20-17-31.bpo-41175.acJoXB.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..844fb804c0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-30-20-17-31.bpo-41175.acJoXB.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Guard against a NULL pointer dereference within bytearrayobject triggered by
+the ``bytearray() + bytearray()`` operation.
diff --git a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
index 5a803be6277..97d7796769f 100644
--- a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
@@ -273,7 +273,9 @@ PyByteArray_Concat(PyObject *a, PyObject *b)
result = (PyByteArrayObject *) \
PyByteArray_FromStringAndSize(NULL, va.len + vb.len);
- if (result != NULL) {
+ // result->ob_bytes is NULL if result is an empty string:
+ // if va.len + vb.len equals zero.
+ if (result != NULL && result->ob_bytes != NULL) {
memcpy(result->ob_bytes, va.buf, va.len);
memcpy(result->ob_bytes + va.len, vb.buf, vb.len);
}