gh-120378: Fix crash caused by integer overflow in curses

Lib/test/test_curses.py

@@ -1095,6 +1095,13 @@ def test_resizeterm(self):
         self.assertEqual(curses.LINES, lines)
         self.assertEqual(curses.COLS, cols)
 
+        with self.assertRaises(OverflowError):
+            curses.resizeterm(35000, 1)
+
+        # GH-120378: Overflow failure in resizeterm() causes refresh to fail
+        tmp = curses.initscr()
+        tmp.erase()
+
     def test_ungetch(self):
         curses.ungetch(b'A')
         self.assertEqual(self.stdscr.getkey(), 'A')

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-09-25-18-07-51.gh-issue-120378.NlBSz_.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix crash related to integer overflow in :func:`curses.resizeterm`

Modules/_cursesmodule.c

@@ -4113,9 +4113,9 @@ NoArgNoReturnFunctionBody(resetty)
 /*[clinic input]
 _curses.resizeterm
 
-    nlines: int
+    nlines: short
         Height.
-    ncols: int
+    ncols: short
         Width.
     /
 
@@ -4126,8 +4126,8 @@ window dimensions (in particular the SIGWINCH handler).
 [clinic start generated code]*/
 
 static PyObject *
-_curses_resizeterm_impl(PyObject *module, int nlines, int ncols)
-/*[clinic end generated code: output=56d6bcc5194ad055 input=0fca02ebad5ffa82]*/
+_curses_resizeterm_impl(PyObject *module, short nlines, short ncols)
+/*[clinic end generated code: output=4de3abab50c67f02 input=414e92a63e3e9899]*/
 {
     PyObject *result;