diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index b65887e2eca1b1..e39e398b85151f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -953,6 +953,15 @@ Generally you only use this feature if you receive a pointer from a C function,
 and you *know* that the pointer actually points to an array instead of a single
 item.
 
+.. warning::
+
+   Because pointer objects support subscription, they implicitly support
+   :term:`iteration <iterator>`. Unless doing this in a controlled manner,
+   such as by manually calling :func:`next` on a :func:`pointer` iterator, this
+   will typically lead to infinite loops or crashes, because ctypes has no way
+   of knowing when to stop iteration. In other words, a ``pointer`` iterator
+   will infinitely yield arbitrary memory.
+
 Behind the scenes, the :func:`pointer` function does more than simply create
 pointer instances, it has to create pointer *types* first. This is done with the
 :func:`POINTER` function, which accepts any :mod:`!ctypes` type, and returns a