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[3.9] bpo-41056: Fix reference to deallocated stack in pathconfig (Coverity) (GH-21013) #21039

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[3.9] bpo-41056: Fix reference to deallocated stack in pathconfig (Coverity) (GH-21013) #21039

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-21-19-53-33.bpo-41056.IDu_EK.rst
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Fixes a reference to deallocated stack space during startup when constructing sys.path involving a relative symlink when code was supplied via -c. (discovered via Coverity)
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Python/pathconfig.c
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Expand Up @@ -686,6 +686,7 @@ _PyPathConfig_ComputeSysPath0(const PyWideStringList *argv, PyObject **path0_p)
#ifdef HAVE_READLINK
wchar_t link[MAXPATHLEN + 1];
int nr = 0;
wchar_t path0copy[2 * MAXPATHLEN + 1];

if (have_script_arg) {
nr = _Py_wreadlink(path0, link, Py_ARRAY_LENGTH(link));
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}
else {
/* Must make a copy, path0copy has room for 2 * MAXPATHLEN */
wchar_t path0copy[2 * MAXPATHLEN + 1];
wcsncpy(path0copy, path0, MAXPATHLEN);
q = wcsrchr(path0copy, SEP);
wcsncpy(q+1, link, MAXPATHLEN);
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