Upstream-Status: Backport Reference:http://bugs.python.org/issue14579 The utf-16 decoder in Python 3.1 through 3.3 does not update the aligned_end variable after calling the unicode_decode_call_errorhandler function, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (process memory) or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via unspecified vectors. http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-2135 Signed-off-by: yanjun.zhu diff -urpN a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c --- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c 2012-11-12 16:25:33.000000000 +0800 +++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c 2012-11-12 16:26:22.000000000 +0800 @@ -2568,7 +2568,7 @@ PyUnicode_DecodeUTF16Stateful(const char } /* UTF-16 code pair: */ - if (q >= e) { + if (e - q < 2) { errmsg = "unexpected end of data"; startinpos = (((const char *)q)-2)-starts; endinpos = ((const char *)e)-starts;