STINNER Victor added the comment: Oh, I forgot to describe the bug.
asctime() (and ctime()?) do crash on year > 9999 with musl. musl uses an hardcoded buffer of 26 bytes: http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/time/__asctime.c musl developers consider that the caller must reject year larger than 9999: /* ISO C requires us to use the above format string, * even if it will not fit in the buffer. Thus asctime_r * is _supposed_ to crash if the fields in tm are too large. * We follow this behavior and crash "gracefully" to warn * application developers that they may not be so lucky * on other implementations (e.g. stack smashing..). */ a_crash(); I disagree. asctime() must either return a longer string, or return an error. But not crash. ---------- title: [2.7] time.asctime() buffer overflow for year > 9999 using mucl (C library) -> [2.7] time.asctime() crash with year > 9999 using musl C library _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue31339> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
