| BASH PATCH REPORT |
| ================= |
| |
| Bash-Release: 4.1 |
| Patch-ID: bash41-008 |
| |
| Bug-Reported-by: Dennis van Dok <dvandok@gmail.com> |
| Bug-Reference-ID: <4BBF2501.5050703@gmail.com> |
| Bug-Reference-URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2010-04/msg00038.html |
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| Bug-Description: |
| |
| When declaring an associative array and implicitly assigning a value |
| to element "0", bash does not correctly allocate memory, leading to |
| a segmentation violation when that element or the array itself is |
| unset. |
| |
| Patch (apply with `patch -p0'): |
| |
| *** ../bash-4.1-patched/builtins/declare.def 2009-11-25 19:42:00.000000000 -0500 |
| --- ./builtins/declare.def 2010-05-30 18:25:21.000000000 -0400 |
| *************** |
| *** 513,517 **** |
| /* let bind_{array,assoc}_variable take care of this. */ |
| if (assoc_p (var)) |
| ! bind_assoc_variable (var, name, "0", value, aflags); |
| else |
| bind_array_variable (name, 0, value, aflags); |
| --- 519,523 ---- |
| /* let bind_{array,assoc}_variable take care of this. */ |
| if (assoc_p (var)) |
| ! bind_assoc_variable (var, name, savestring ("0"), value, aflags); |
| else |
| bind_array_variable (name, 0, value, aflags); |
| *** ../bash-4.1-patched/patchlevel.h 2009-10-01 16:39:22.000000000 -0400 |
| --- ./patchlevel.h 2010-01-14 09:38:08.000000000 -0500 |
| *************** |
| *** 26,30 **** |
| looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ |
| |
| ! #define PATCHLEVEL 7 |
| |
| #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */ |
| --- 26,30 ---- |
| looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ |
| |
| ! #define PATCHLEVEL 8 |
| |
| #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */ |