Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: null ptr deref and segfault in parameter_brace_transform.isra.17 () at subst.c:6827 (bash 4.4.0(1)-beta) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:30:22 -0400 Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University Lines: 14 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1442770233 14283 208.118.235.17 (20 Sep 2015 17:30:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: Brian Carpenter , bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv1.tis.cwru.edu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 129.22.105.36 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11516 On 9/20/15 12:17 AM, Brian Carpenter wrote: > I found another null ptr deref and segfault. This only seems to affect bash > 4.4.0 as 4.2.37(1)-release and 4.2.37(1)-release only return a 'bad > substitution' error message. Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next release of bash. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/