bpo-40880: Fix invalid read in newline_in_string in pegen.c (GH-20666)

* bpo-40880: Fix invalid read in newline_in_string in pegen.c

* Update Parser/pegen/pegen.c

Co-authored-by: Lysandros Nikolaou <[email protected]>

* Add NEWS entry

Co-authored-by: Lysandros Nikolaou <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 2e6593d)

Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-06-00-23-19.bpo-40880.fjdzSh.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix invalid memory read in the new parser when checking newlines in string
+literals. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

Parser/pegen/pegen.c

@@ -936,8 +936,8 @@ _PyPegen_number_token(Parser *p)
 static int // bool
 newline_in_string(Parser *p, const char *cur)
 {
-    for (char c = *cur; cur >= p->tok->buf; c = *--cur) {
-        if (c == '\'' || c == '"') {
+    for (const char *c = cur; c >= p->tok->buf; c--) {
+        if (*c == '\'' || *c == '"') {
             return 1;
         }
     }