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gh-125118: don't copy arbitrary values to _Bool in the struct module (GH-125169) 

memcopy'ing arbitrary values to _Bool variable triggers undefined
behaviour. Avoid this.
We assume that `false` is represented by all zero bytes.

Credits to Alex Gaynor.

Co-authored-by: Sam Gross <colesbury@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
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Sergey B Kirpichev 2024-10-10 15:42:03 +03:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -540,6 +540,9 @@ class StructTest(ComplexesAreIdenticalMixin, unittest.TestCase):
for c in [b'\x01', b'\x7f', b'\xff', b'\x0f', b'\xf0']:
self.assertTrue(struct.unpack('>?', c)[0])
self.assertTrue(struct.unpack('<?', c)[0])
self.assertTrue(struct.unpack('=?', c)[0])
self.assertTrue(struct.unpack('@?', c)[0])
def test_count_overflow(self):
hugecount = '{}b'.format(sys.maxsize+1)

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Don't copy arbitrary values to :c:expr:`_Bool` in the :mod:`struct` module.

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Modules/_struct.c
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@ -497,9 +497,8 @@ nu_ulonglong(_structmodulestate *state, const char *p, const formatdef *f)
static PyObject *
nu_bool(_structmodulestate *state, const char *p, const formatdef *f)
{
_Bool x;
memcpy(&x, p, sizeof x);
return PyBool_FromLong(x != 0);
const _Bool bool_false = 0;
return PyBool_FromLong(memcmp(p, &bool_false, sizeof(_Bool)));
}