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Subject: [Security-announce][CVE-2025-4516] Use-after-free crash using
bytes.decode("unicode_escape", error="ignore|replace")
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 09:33:30 -0400
From: Seth Larson <s...@python.org>
Reply-To: security-...@python.org
To: security-annou...@python.org
There is a MEDIUM severity security issue in CPython when using
`bytes.decode("unicode_escape", error="ignore|replace")`. The use-after-free
being exploited would likely result in a crash.
If you are not using the "unicode_escape" encoding or an error handler your
usage is not affected. To work-around this issue you may stop using the error=
handler and instead wrap the bytes.decode() call in a try-except catching the
decoding error.
Please see the linked CVE ID for the latest information on affected versions:
* https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4516
* https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/129648
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