Re: BASH recursion segfault, FUNCNEST doesn't help

2022-06-01 Thread Martin Schulte
Hi Gergely! > I stumbled upon a recursion overflow crash in BASH. There are many ways to exhaust memory (and other) recources, recursion is one them. In your case a variable like SRCNEST (and all the code with its performance impacts needed behind it) might help, but what exactly is the advant

BASH recursion segfault, FUNCNEST doesn't help

2022-06-01 Thread Gergely
Hi, I stumbled upon a recursion overflow crash in BASH. It affects both my Debian machine (this report), as well as the latest stable built from source. There's a slim chance this might be exploitable. Best, Gergely Kalman Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: M

Re: Bash-5.2-beta available

2022-06-01 Thread Chet Ramey
On 6/1/22 5:54 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 13.04.22 20:40, Chet Ramey wrote: >> The first beta release of bash-5.2 is now available with the URLs >> >> ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-5.2-beta.tar.gz >> https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-5.2-beta.tar.gz > > not in the bash tarball, but in t

Re: Bash-5.2-beta available

2022-06-01 Thread Matthias Klose
On 13.04.22 20:40, Chet Ramey wrote: The first beta release of bash-5.2 is now available with the URLs ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-5.2-beta.tar.gz https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-5.2-beta.tar.gz not in the bash tarball, but in the readline 8.2 beta tarball, the generated configure

[gnu.org #1838744] Bash Manual, 3.6.2 Redirecting Inputs, SUGGESTION

2022-06-01 Thread Therese Godefroy via RT
Le Mar 31 Mai 2022 10:02:56, chet.ra...@case.edu a écrit : [...] > You might tell him that this is standard usage, up to and including > the > POSIX standard: > > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_07 > > I may change this sometime, but it's low prior