I can't reproduce on Debian (bookworm):

bash deb 5.2.15-2+b9
BASH_VERSION 5.2.15(1)-release
Running with bash --norc


On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/17/25 2:01 AM, Casey Connor wrote:
>
> > Bash Version: 5.2
> > Patch Level: 15
> > Release Status: release
> >
> > Description:
> >
> > If I open a new terminal and enter the (obviously malformed) command
> > "$(;" (without quotes) I get a bash crash about 90% of the time.
>
> Thanks for the report. I can't reproduce this using bash-5.3 on RHEL. I
> don't have a Debian system handy to test on.
>
> Chet
>
> --
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    [email protected]    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>

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