fix integer overflow in unicode case operations (closes #22643)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index c2ede07..e1ccd5c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -661,6 +661,11 @@
         self.assertEqual('x'.center(4, '\U0010FFFF'),
                          '\U0010FFFFx\U0010FFFF\U0010FFFF')
 
+    @unittest.skipUnless(sys.maxsize == 2**31 - 1, "requires 32-bit system")
+    def test_case_operation_overflow(self):
+        # Issue #22643
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, ("ü"*(2**32//12 + 1)).upper)
+
     def test_contains(self):
         # Testing Unicode contains method
         self.assertIn('a', 'abdb')
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8fbf58b..7676c90 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #22643: Fix integer overflow in Unicode case operations (upper, lower,
+  title, swapcase, casefold).
+
 - Issue #22518: Fixed integer overflow issues in "backslashreplace",
   "xmlcharrefreplace", and "surrogatepass" error handlers.
 
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 1ce5caa..35da457 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -9484,6 +9484,11 @@
     kind = PyUnicode_KIND(self);
     data = PyUnicode_DATA(self);
     length = PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH(self);
+    if (length > PY_SSIZE_T_MAX / 3 ||
+        length > PY_SIZE_MAX / (3 * sizeof(Py_UCS4))) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError, "string is too long");
+        return NULL;
+    }
     tmp = PyMem_MALLOC(sizeof(Py_UCS4) * 3 * length);
     if (tmp == NULL)
         return PyErr_NoMemory();