On 10/17/25 5:31 PM, Grisha Levit 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. >I can reproduce this on Debian 12 but only if bash is started exactly as OP describes, with the specified contents in ~/.bashrc, not e.g. using --rcfile /tmp/op.bashrc.
Can you see anything with valgrind? I can't reproduce it with bash-5.3 on
Debian 12.12, even when starting bash with that ~/.bashrc.
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