New submission from Ryan Williams <r...@lindenlab.com>:
This crash is surprisingly consistent across versions, operating
systems, and whether the c module is used or not:
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Apr 16 2009, 09:17:39)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from xml.etree.cElementTree import fromstring
>>> fromstring('<?xml \xcb\x8c ?>')
Segmentation fault
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Jun 3 2009, 14:22:10)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5488)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from xml.etree.ElementTree import fromstring
>>> fromstring('<?xml \xcb\x8c ?>')
Segmentation fault
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Oct 22 2008, 20:20:22)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from elementtree.ElementTree import fromstring
>>> fromstring('<?xml \xcb\x8c ?>')
Segmentation fault
Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Jul 23 2008, 18:15:29)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from xml.etree.ElementTree import fromstring
>>> fromstring('<?xml \xcb\x8c ?>')
Segmentation fault
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 17:40:26)
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from xml.etree.ElementTree import fromstring
>>> fromstring('<?xml \xcb\x8c ?>')
Segmentation fault
I'm a little fuzzy on who's responsible for elementtree, so if there's a
more appropriate venue to file this bug, please let me know.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 94073
nosy: whichlinden
severity: normal
status: open
title: elementtree segfaults on invalid xml declaration
type: crash
versions: Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6
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