Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
string instead.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index bc8529a..4806f26 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
+ could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
+ returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
+ string instead.
+
- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.