[3.14] gh-143544: Fix possible use-after-free in the JSON decoder when JSONDecodeErro...

gh-143544: Fix possible use-after-free in the JSON decoder when JSONDecodeError disappears during raising it (GH-143561)
(cherry picked from commit c3157480601499565fd42a8afbdb0207328ac484)

Co-authored-by: VanshAgarwal24036 <148854295+VanshAgarwal24036@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Modules/_json.c b/Modules/_json.c
index 2f82a69a1579dcf893d84dcc0de69fb534481931..b3959cfe4a11b33f0c2e01e9aa0bd055645e54b7 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/_json.c
+++ b/Modules/_json.c
@@ -316,11 +316,12 @@ raise_errmsg(const char *msg, PyObject *s, Py_ssize_t end)
 
     PyObject *exc;
     exc = PyObject_CallFunction(JSONDecodeError, "zOn", msg, s, end);
-    Py_DECREF(JSONDecodeError);
     if (exc) {
         PyErr_SetObject(JSONDecodeError, exc);
         Py_DECREF(exc);
     }
+
+    Py_DECREF(JSONDecodeError);
 }
 
 static void