BASH PATCH REPORT

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Bash-Release: 3.2

Patch-ID: bash32-023

Bug-Reported-by:	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@cwru.edu>

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Bug-Description:

When an error occurs during the pattern removal word expansion, the shell

can free unallocated memory or free memory multiple times.

Patch:

*** ../bash-3.2-patched/subst.c	Tue Apr  3 16:47:19 2007

--- subst.c	Tue Jul 17 09:45:11 2007

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*** 3975,3979 ****

      patstr++;

!   pattern = getpattern (patstr, quoted, 1);

    temp1 = (char *)NULL;		/* shut up gcc */

--- 4008,4016 ----

      patstr++;

!   /* Need to pass getpattern newly-allocated memory in case of expansion --

!      the expansion code will free the passed string on an error. */

!   temp1 = savestring (patstr);

!   pattern = getpattern (temp1, quoted, 1);

!   free (temp1);

    temp1 = (char *)NULL;		/* shut up gcc */

*** ../bash-3.2/patchlevel.h	Thu Apr 13 08:31:04 2006

--- patchlevel.h	Mon Oct 16 14:22:54 2006

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*** 26,30 ****

     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */

! #define PATCHLEVEL 22

  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */

--- 26,30 ----

     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */

! #define PATCHLEVEL 23

  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */