Issue #23985: Fix a possible buffer overrun when deleting a slice from the front of a bytearray and then appending some other bytes data.

Patch by Martin Panter.

Lib/test/test_bytes.py

@@ -993,6 +993,22 @@ class ByteArrayTest(BaseBytesTest, unittest.TestCase):
         b.extend(range(100, 110))
         self.assertEqual(list(b), list(range(10, 110)))
 
+    def test_fifo_overrun(self):
+        # Test for issue #23985, a buffer overrun when implementing a FIFO
+        # Build Python in pydebug mode for best results.
+        b = bytearray(10)
+        b.pop()        # Defeat expanding buffer off-by-one quirk
+        del b[:1]      # Advance start pointer without reallocating
+        b += bytes(2)  # Append exactly the number of deleted bytes
+        del b          # Free memory buffer, allowing pydebug verification
+
+    def test_del_expand(self):
+        # Reducing the size should not expand the buffer (issue #23985)
+        b = bytearray(10)
+        size = sys.getsizeof(b)
+        del b[:1]
+        self.assertLessEqual(sys.getsizeof(b), size)
+
     def test_extended_set_del_slice(self):
         indices = (0, None, 1, 3, 19, 300, 1<<333, -1, -2, -31, -300)
         for start in indices:

Misc/NEWS

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Release date: 2015-05-24
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #23985: Fix a possible buffer overrun when deleting a slice from
+  the front of a bytearray and then appending some other bytes data.
+
 - Issue #24102: Fixed exception type checking in standard error handlers.
 
 - Issue #15027: The UTF-32 encoder is now 3x to 7x faster.

Objects/bytearrayobject.c

@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ PyByteArray_Resize(PyObject *self, Py_ssize_t requested_size)
         return -1;
     }
 
-    if (size + logical_offset + 1 < alloc) {
+    if (size + logical_offset + 1 <= alloc) {
         /* Current buffer is large enough to host the requested size,
            decide on a strategy. */
         if (size < alloc / 2) {
@@ -331,11 +331,7 @@ bytearray_iconcat(PyByteArrayObject *self, PyObject *other)
         PyBuffer_Release(&vo);
         return PyErr_NoMemory();
     }
-    if (size < self->ob_alloc) {
-        Py_SIZE(self) = size;
-        PyByteArray_AS_STRING(self)[Py_SIZE(self)] = '\0'; /* Trailing null byte */
-    }
-    else if (PyByteArray_Resize((PyObject *)self, size) < 0) {
+    if (PyByteArray_Resize((PyObject *)self, size) < 0) {
         PyBuffer_Release(&vo);
         return NULL;
     }