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  r70684 | mark.dickinson | 2009-03-29 17:24:29 +0100 (Sun, 29 Mar 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #532631: Apply floatformat changes to unicodeobject.c
  as well as stringobject.c.
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diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 70c95a15ca29db35628fb1ba3fc477e39acf04cc..acec713f1654c11bf08d3bfb9076cdac65346ae4 100644 (file)
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -8228,6 +8228,15 @@ formatfloat(Py_UNICODE *buf,
         return -1;
     if (prec < 0)
         prec = 6;
+    /* make sure that the decimal representation of precision really does
+       need at most 10 digits: platforms with sizeof(int) == 8 exist! */
+    if (prec > 0x7fffffffL) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError,
+                        "outrageously large precision "
+                        "for formatted float");
+        return -1;
+    }
+
     if (type == 'f' && fabs(x) >= 1e50)
         type = 'g';
     /* Worst case length calc to ensure no buffer overrun: