[issue22391] MSILIB truncates last character in summary information stream

Berker Peksag added the comment: Thanks for the report. This is a duplicate of issue 1104. -- nosy: +berker.peksag resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue22391] MSILIB truncates last character in summary information stream

Idoa added the comment: Encountered this issue also in python 2.7.7. last character is replaced with \x00. reproduction is exactly as stated by Kevin.Phillips -- nosy: +Idoa ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue22391] MSILIB truncates last character in summary information stream

New submission from Kevin Phillips: I recently exploited a subtle bug with the msilib module's GetProperty method on the SummaryInformation class. When retrieving string-typed properties from the stream the last character in the string gets truncated, replaced by a null-byte. I am using

[issue22391] MSILIB truncates last character in summary information stream

Kevin Phillips added the comment: I should mention that I did discover some source code on GitHub, presumably for this wrapper module, and I believe I found a few questionable parts in the logic for this library that may help explain the cause of this problem:

[issue22391] MSILIB truncates last character in summary information stream

Changes by Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk: -- nosy: +steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22391 ___

[issue22391] MSILIB truncates last character in summary information stream

Changes by Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr: -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22391 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing