BASH PATCH REPORT
=================
Bash-Release: 5.2
Patch-ID: bash52-002
Bug-Reported-by: Kan-Ru Chen <[email protected]>
Bug-Reference-ID:
Bug-Reference-URL:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1021109
Bug-Description:
Starting bash with an invalid locale specification for LC_ALL/LANG/LC_CTYPE
can cause the shell to crash.
Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):
*** ../bash-5.2-patched/lib/readline/nls.c 2022-08-15 09:38:51.000000000
-0400
--- lib/readline/nls.c 2022-10-05 09:23:22.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 142,145 ****
--- 142,149 ----
lspec = "";
ret = setlocale (LC_CTYPE, lspec); /* ok, since it does not change locale
*/
+ if (ret == 0 || *ret == 0)
+ ret = setlocale (LC_CTYPE, (char *)NULL);
+ if (ret == 0 || *ret == 0)
+ ret = RL_DEFAULT_LOCALE;
#else
ret = (lspec == 0 || *lspec == 0) ? RL_DEFAULT_LOCALE : lspec;
*** ../bash-5.2/patchlevel.h 2020-06-22 14:51:03.000000000 -0400
--- patchlevel.h 2020-10-01 11:01:28.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 26,30 ****
looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
! #define PATCHLEVEL 1
#endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
! #define PATCHLEVEL 2
#endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
