From: Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 23:56:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix possible buffer overflow on Windows when reading code page.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4.4c1~200
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=89d862360cc15c20783f4aa0775a3d2450f1bd7b;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Fix possible buffer overflow on Windows when reading code page.

Backport of fix for bug #1501223.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index cac884c98dad..93d16279166a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- Bug #1501223: Possible overflow in _PySys_Init() when reading the code page
+  under Windows.
+
 - Patch #1478292. ``doctest.register_optionflag(name)`` shouldn't create a
   new flag when ``name`` is already the name of an option flag.
 
diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index 1ce016f3f7a1..b51fa86a760c 100644
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ _PySys_Init(void)
 	PyObject *sysin, *sysout, *syserr;
 	char *s;
 #ifdef MS_WINDOWS
-	char buf[10];
+	char buf[13];
 #endif
 
 	m = Py_InitModule3("sys", sys_methods, sys_doc);