[3.14] gh-145792: Fix incorrect alloca allocation size in traceback.c (GH-145814) (#145909)

miss-islington · VanshAgarwal24036 · web-flow · commit d9c26676b26a · 2026-03-13T12:45:18.000Z
gh-145792: Fix incorrect alloca allocation size in traceback.c (GH-145814) (cherry picked from commit 59d9768) Co-authored-by: VanshAgarwal24036 <148854295+VanshAgarwal24036@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-03-11-19-09-47.gh-issue-145792.X5KUhc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-03-11-19-09-47.gh-issue-145792.X5KUhc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix out-of-bounds access when invoking faulthandler on a CPython build
+compiled without support for VLAs.
diff --git a/Python/traceback.c b/Python/traceback.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 #if defined(__STDC_NO_VLA__) && (__STDC_NO_VLA__ == 1)
 /* Use alloca() for VLAs. */
-#  define VLA(type, name, size) type *name = alloca(size)
+#  define VLA(type, name, size) type *name = alloca(sizeof(type) * (size))
 #elif !defined(__STDC_NO_VLA__) || (__STDC_NO_VLA__ == 0)
 /* Use actual C VLAs.*/
 #  define VLA(type, name, size) type name[size]

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	`1`	`+Fix out-of-bounds access when invoking faulthandler on a CPython build`
	`2`	`+compiled without support for VLAs.`