https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b708802e5ba5176d13aad4c5ffe644498251b5ac
commit: b708802e5ba5176d13aad4c5ffe644498251b5ac
branch: 3.13
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: StanFromIreland <[email protected]>
date: 2026-08-30T11:06:30Z
summary:

[3.13] Fix a dangling pointer and reference leak in 
`local_timezone_from_timestamp` (GH-156598) (#156645)

(cherry picked from commit fcf0a987006e1aa44cc36183f44679d3f3d64f7e)

Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <[email protected]>

files:
M Modules/_datetimemodule.c

diff --git a/Modules/_datetimemodule.c b/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
index f54ec606888f88..4707986d2e4f9b 100644
--- a/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
@@ -6330,6 +6330,9 @@ local_timezone_from_timestamp(time_t timestamp)
     struct tm local_time_tm;
     PyObject *nameo = NULL;
     const char *zone = NULL;
+#ifndef HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_ZONE
+    char buf[100];  // for zone, which is used after the block below
+#endif
 
     if (_PyTime_localtime(timestamp, &local_time_tm) != 0)
         return NULL;
@@ -6340,9 +6343,9 @@ local_timezone_from_timestamp(time_t timestamp)
     {
         PyObject *local_time, *utc_time;
         struct tm utc_time_tm;
-        char buf[100];
-        strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%Z", &local_time_tm);
-        zone = buf;
+        if (strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%Z", &local_time_tm) != 0) {
+            zone = buf;
+        }
         local_time = new_datetime(local_time_tm.tm_year + 1900,
                                   local_time_tm.tm_mon + 1,
                                   local_time_tm.tm_mday,
@@ -6352,8 +6355,10 @@ local_timezone_from_timestamp(time_t timestamp)
         if (local_time == NULL) {
             return NULL;
         }
-        if (_PyTime_gmtime(timestamp, &utc_time_tm) != 0)
+        if (_PyTime_gmtime(timestamp, &utc_time_tm) != 0) {
+            Py_DECREF(local_time);
             return NULL;
+        }
         utc_time = new_datetime(utc_time_tm.tm_year + 1900,
                                 utc_time_tm.tm_mon + 1,
                                 utc_time_tm.tm_mday,

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