commit 3a8b79d4d2b64e1a80512845edcc388b1ec76dcd
author Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> Mon Jul 08 22:23:32 2013 +0200
committer Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> Mon Jul 08 22:23:32 2013 +0200
tree c746322b69591f7977f3903f330ca037edc90d3e
parent b27cd3e5ad9e3da24cdce7f498fa64d2994788a0

Issue #18408: Fix marshal reader for Unicode strings: handle
PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() failure (ex: MemoryError).

Python/marshal.c

diff --git a/Python/marshal.c b/Python/marshal.c
index e519fc9..e97de59 100644
--- a/Python/marshal.c
+++ b/Python/marshal.c
@@ -998,6 +998,10 @@
         else {
             v = PyUnicode_New(0, 0);
         }
+        if (v == NULL) {
+            retval = NULL;
+            break;
+        }
         if (type == TYPE_INTERNED)
             PyUnicode_InternInPlace(&v);
         retval = v;