cpython/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2025-05-09-20-22-54.gh-issue-133767.kN2i3Q.rst
Serhiy Storchaka 4398b788ff
[3.12] gh-133767: Fix use-after-free in the unicode-escape decoder with an error handler (GH-129648) (GH-133944) (#134337)
If the error handler is used, a new bytes object is created to set as
the object attribute of UnicodeDecodeError, and that bytes object then
replaces the original data. A pointer to the decoded data will became invalid
after destroying that temporary bytes object. So we need other way to return
the first invalid escape from _PyUnicode_DecodeUnicodeEscapeInternal().

_PyBytes_DecodeEscape() does not have such issue, because it does not
use the error handlers registry, but it should be changed for compatibility
with _PyUnicode_DecodeUnicodeEscapeInternal().
(cherry picked from commit 9f69a58623)
(cherry picked from commit 6279eb8c07)
2025-05-25 20:33:22 -07:00

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Fix use-after-free in the "unicode-escape" decoder with a non-"strict" error
handler.