Fixed django#15067 -- Modified the range checks on base36_to_int so y…

…ou are guaranteed to always get an int, avoiding possible OverflowErrors. Thanks to Garthex for the report, jboutros for the patch, and kfrazier for the feedback.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@15288 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/contrib/auth/tests/views.py

@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@ def test_confirm_invalid_user(self):
         self.assertEquals(response.status_code, 200)
         self.assert_("The password reset link was invalid" in response.content)
 
+    def test_confirm_overflow_user(self):
+        # Ensure that we get a 200 response for a base36 user id that overflows int
+        response = self.client.get('/reset/zzzzzzzzzzzzz-1-1/')
+        self.assertEquals(response.status_code, 200)
+        self.assert_("The password reset link was invalid" in response.content)
+
     def test_confirm_invalid_post(self):
         # Same as test_confirm_invalid, but trying
         # to do a POST instead.

django/utils/http.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import re
+import sys
 import urllib
 from email.Utils import formatdate
 
@@ -73,14 +74,19 @@ def http_date(epoch_seconds=None):
 
 def base36_to_int(s):
     """
-    Converts a base 36 string to an ``int``. To prevent
-    overconsumption of server resources, raises ``ValueError` if the
-    input is longer than 13 base36 digits (13 digits is sufficient to
-    base36-encode any 64-bit integer).
+    Converts a base 36 string to an ``int``. Raises ``ValueError` if the
+    input won't fit into an int.
     """
+    # To prevent overconsumption of server resources, reject any
+    # base36 string that is long than 13 base36 digits (13 digits
+    # is sufficient to base36-encode any 64-bit integer)
     if len(s) > 13:
         raise ValueError("Base36 input too large")
-    return int(s, 36)
+    value = int(s, 36)
+    # ... then do a final check that the value will fit into an int.
+    if value > sys.maxint:
+        raise ValueError("Base36 input too large")
+    return value
 
 def int_to_base36(i):
     """