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authorMeador Inge <meadori@gmail.com>2016-04-30 21:56:59 -0500
committerMeador Inge <meadori@gmail.com>2016-04-30 21:56:59 -0500
commit383eb2c8efcd3963e2660384a9a57f4ba1e051b3 (patch)
tree9cc8a4c04426d3f3cfd73893e73cd1fae57f5b87
parent2a2f97b59fc39bd426e268dc4aa5eb943fe24331 (diff)
downloadcpython-383eb2c8efcd3963e2660384a9a57f4ba1e051b3.tar.gz
Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.
The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches for the `crle` program. Patch by Xiang Zhang. Tested on SunOS by Kees Bos.
-rw-r--r--Lib/ctypes/util.py1
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS6
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/util.py b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
index 9e74ccdbcf..8ff4aff0ca 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/util.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ elif os.name == "posix":
else:
cmd = 'env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/crle 2>/dev/null'
+ paths = None
with contextlib.closing(os.popen(cmd)) as f:
for line in f.readlines():
line = line.strip()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 67c2a17e5d..89403b04e8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.
+
+ The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches
+ for the `crle` program. Patch by Xiang Zhang. Tested on SunOS by
+ Kees Bos.
+
- Issue #26864: In urllib.request, change the proxy bypass host checking
against no_proxy to be case-insensitive, and to not match unrelated host
names that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a suffix. Patch by Xiang