https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cd10a2e65c25682095f6ee4a9b9a181938a50d2e
commit: cd10a2e65c25682095f6ee4a9b9a181938a50d2e
branch: main
author: Shamil <[email protected]>
committer: vstinner <[email protected]>
date: 2026-03-20T15:58:41Z
summary:

gh-146196: Fix Undefined Behavior in _PyUnicodeWriter_WriteASCIIString() 
(#146201)

Avoid calling memcpy(data + writer->pos, NULL, 0)
which has an undefined behavior.

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <[email protected]>

files:
A 
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-03-20-13-55-14.gh-issue-146196.Zg70Kb.rst
M Objects/unicode_writer.c

diff --git 
a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-03-20-13-55-14.gh-issue-146196.Zg70Kb.rst
 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-03-20-13-55-14.gh-issue-146196.Zg70Kb.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..9e03c1bbb0e1cb
--- /dev/null
+++ 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-03-20-13-55-14.gh-issue-146196.Zg70Kb.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix potential Undefined Behavior in :c:func:`PyUnicodeWriter_WriteASCII` by
+adding a zero-length check. Patch by Shamil Abdulaev.
diff --git a/Objects/unicode_writer.c b/Objects/unicode_writer.c
index cd2688e32dfaf8..a753c9b971c702 100644
--- a/Objects/unicode_writer.c
+++ b/Objects/unicode_writer.c
@@ -465,6 +465,10 @@ _PyUnicodeWriter_WriteASCIIString(_PyUnicodeWriter *writer,
     if (len == -1)
         len = strlen(ascii);
 
+    if (len == 0) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
     assert(ucs1lib_find_max_char((const Py_UCS1*)ascii, (const Py_UCS1*)ascii 
+ len) < 128);
 
     if (writer->buffer == NULL && !writer->overallocate) {

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