[issue2589] PyOS_vsnprintf() potential integer overflow leads to memory corruption on esoteric architectures

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[issue2589] PyOS_vsnprintf() potential integer overflow leads to memory corruption on esoteric architectures

New submission from Justin Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On architectures that do not have a vsnprintf() in their standard library Python attempts to emulate it. When doing so, the implementation ambitiously allocates more memory than requested without verifying the sanity of the summed value. As