diff Objects/stringobject.c @ 52408:1afb365f2448 legacy-trunk

Issue #532631: Add paranoid check to avoid potential buffer overflow on systems with sizeof(int) > 4.
author Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>
date Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:17:16 +0000
parents 019815bc37ea
children 6947bc3dd433
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--- a/Objects/stringobject.c	Sun Mar 29 14:37:51 2009 +0000
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c	Sun Mar 29 16:17:16 2009 +0000
@@ -4344,6 +4344,15 @@
 	}
 	if (prec < 0)
 		prec = 6;
+	/* make sure that the decimal representation of precision really does
+	   need at most 10 digits: platforms with sizeof(int) == 8 exist! */
+	if (prec > 0x7fffffffL) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError,
+				"outrageously large precision "
+				"for formatted float");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	if (type == 'f' && fabs(x) >= 1e50)
 		type = 'g';
 	/* Worst case length calc to ensure no buffer overrun:
@@ -4372,7 +4381,7 @@
 	PyOS_snprintf(fmt, sizeof(fmt), "%%%s.%d%c",
 		      (flags&F_ALT) ? "#" : "",
 		      prec, type);
-        PyOS_ascii_formatd(buf, buflen, fmt, x);
+	PyOS_ascii_formatd(buf, buflen, fmt, x);
 	return (int)strlen(buf);
 }