New submission from Robert Snoeberger:
While embedding the Python 2.7 interpreter in an application, I have
encountered a crash when the built-in function 'execfile' is invoked with one
argument.
A file is attached, execfile_invoke.c, that reproduces the crash. The
reproduction steps on my machine are the following:
% gcc -o execfile_invoke execfile_invoke.c -I/usr/include/python2.7 -L/usr/lib
-lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm -lpython2.7 -Xlinker -export-dynamic
% ./execfile_invoke
Call execfile with one argument...
Segmentation fault
%
I am using the following version of Python.
Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
The crash appears to occur because a call to PyEval_GetGlobals returns a NULL
PyObject*,
globals = PyEval_GetGlobals();
and PyDict_GetItemString is called before a NULL check is performed.
In the Python 3 function builtin_exec, globals and locals are checked for NULL.
If either is NULL, an exception with message "globals and locals cannot be
NULL" is set.
if (!globals || !locals) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_SystemError,
"globals and locals cannot be NULL");
return NULL;
}
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files: execfile_invoke.c
messages: 218988
nosy: snoeberger
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Segv during call to builtin_execfile in application embedding Python
interpreter.
type: crash
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35329/execfile_invoke.c
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