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Re: bash -n: stack overflow in extract_delimited_string()

From Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: bash -n: stack overflow in extract_delimited_string()
Date 2020-08-03 09:15 -0400
Organization ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID <mailman.660.1596460527.2739.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References <20200803093054.gu6fmxi4eqi7hz45@jwilk.net> <7177240a-2e57-49c2-e35a-7bb16bfc12e3@case.edu>

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On 8/3/20 5:30 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 18
> Release Status: release
> 
> bash crashes with stack overflow when checking syntax of this crafted script:
> 
>   $ ulimit -s
>   8192
> 
>   $ printf 'x[$(($(fi)))`\n%050000d\n][`]\n' | tr 0 '(' | bash -n
>   bash: command substitution: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
>   bash: command substitution: line 4: `fi)))`'
>   Segmentation fault

I can't reproduce this with bash-5.1-alpha.


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Re: bash -n: stack overflow in extract_delimited_string() Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2020-08-03 09:15 -0400

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