New submission from Larry Hastings: tl;dr: skipitem() in Python/getsargs.c doesn't know about the 'w*' format unit, which could lead to a crash. It should know about it.
-- If: * you have an extension that parses its arguments with PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords (or its cousins), * you have optional positional parameters, and * you run out of positional arguments CPython will call skipitem() to skip over the remaining positional parameters so it can process keyword arguments. It does this by knowing all the format units, and iterating over them and throwing away the various varargs pointers until it hits the keyword arguments part of the format string. Since nobody ever explained about the "w*" format unit to it, that means when it sees 'w*' it will misinterpret it. In both 2.7 and 3.x, it'll interpret it as 'w', throw away one "char *" item from varargs, then the next thing that tries to parse a format unit (skipitem or convertsimple) will see the '*' and throw an 'impossible<bad format char>' exception. (It's another bug that skipitem() supports 'w' and 'w#' in Python 3, but I filed that separately as #23926 .) ---------- assignee: larry components: Interpreter Core messages: 240588 nosy: larry priority: low severity: normal stage: test needed status: open title: getargs.c skipitem() doesn't skip 'w*' type: crash versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23927> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
