[3.14] Add prominent crash warning to ctypes docs (GH-150410) (GH-150548)

miss-islington · StanFromIreland · encukou · web-flow · commit e4a23c8ff643 · 2026-05-28T12:24:04.000+02:00
(cherry picked from commit b53f6ca) Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <stan@python.org> Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ used to wrap these libraries in pure Python.
 
 .. include:: ../includes/optional-module.rst
 
+.. warning::
+
+   :mod:`!ctypes` provides low-level access to native libraries and the
+   process's memory, bypassing Python's safety mechanisms and allowing
+   execution of arbitrary native code.
+   Incorrect use can corrupt data and objects, reveal sensitive information,
+   cause crashes, or otherwise compromise the running process.
+
 
 .. _ctypes-ctypes-tutorial:
 
@@ -200,10 +208,8 @@ argument values::
    OSError: exception: access violation reading 0x00000020
    >>>
 
-There are, however, enough ways to crash Python with :mod:`!ctypes`, so you
-should be careful anyway.  The :mod:`faulthandler` module can be helpful in
-debugging crashes (e.g. from segmentation faults produced by erroneous C library
-calls).
+The :mod:`faulthandler` module can help debug crashes,
+such as segmentation faults produced by erroneous C library calls.
 
 ``None``, integers, bytes objects and (unicode) strings are the only native
 Python objects that can directly be used as parameters in these function calls.
