CIFuzz fails on the 3.13 and 3.14 branches: plistlib parse and LookupError
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Examples on a 3.13 PR:
- CIFuzz / python3-libraries (address): https://github.com/python/cpython/actions/runs/28177183993/job/83456696673#logs
- CIFuzz / cpython3 (undefined): https://github.com/python/cpython/actions/runs/28177183993/job/83456696702#logs
- CIFuzz / cpython3 (memory): https://github.com/python/cpython/actions/runs/28177183993/job/83456696797
Example on the address job:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 7, in FuzzerRunOne
File "/github/workspace/build-out/cpython-install/lib/python3.13/plistlib.py", line 925, in loads
return load(fp, fmt=fmt, dict_type=dict_type, aware_datetime=aware_datetime)
File "/github/workspace/build-out/cpython-install/lib/python3.13/plistlib.py", line 912, in load
return p.parse(fp)
~~~~~~~^^^^
File "/github/workspace/build-out/cpython-install/lib/python3.13/plistlib.py", line 194, in parse
self.parser.ParseFile(fileobj)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
LookupError: unknown encoding: Latin-5_________________________
The artifacts ZIP contains:
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cc @StanFromIreland @serhiy-storchaka
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