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closes bpo-39510: Fix use-after-free in BufferedReader.readinto() (GH-18350)
When called on a closed object, readinto() segfaults on account of a write to a freed buffer: ==220553== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV): dumping core ==220553== Access not within mapped region at address 0x2A ==220553== at 0x48408A0: memmove (vg_replace_strmem.c:1272) ==220553== by 0x58DB0C: _buffered_readinto_generic (bufferedio.c:972) ==220553== by 0x58DCBA: _io__Buffered_readinto_impl (bufferedio.c:1053) ==220553== by 0x58DCBA: _io__Buffered_readinto (bufferedio.c.h:253) Reproducer: reader = open ("/dev/zero", "rb") _void = reader.read (42) reader.close () reader.readinto (bytearray (42)) GH-GH-GH- BANG! The problem exists since 2012 when commit dc46945 added code to free the read buffer on close(). Signed-off-by: Philipp Gesang <philipp.gesang@intra2net.com> (cherry picked from commit cb1c074) Co-authored-by: Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net> Co-authored-by: Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>
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Lib/test/test_io.py

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file.seek(0)
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file.close()
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self.assertRaises(ValueError, file.read)
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with self.open(support.TESTFN, "rb") as f:
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file = self.open(f.fileno(), "rb", closefd=False)
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self.assertEqual(file.read()[:3], b"egg")
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file.close()
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self.assertRaises(ValueError, file.readinto, bytearray(1))
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def test_no_closefd_with_filename(self):
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# can't use closefd in combination with a file name
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Fix segfault in ``readinto()`` method on closed BufferedReader.

Modules/_io/bufferedio.c

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PyObject *res = NULL;
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CHECK_INITIALIZED(self)
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CHECK_CLOSED(self, "readinto of closed file")
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n = Py_SAFE_DOWNCAST(READAHEAD(self), Py_off_t, Py_ssize_t);
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if (n > 0) {

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