Bug#861354: dash: segmentation fault when using >&$EMPTY_VARIABLE

2017-05-06 Thread Bernhard Übelacker
Sorry, forgot to attach the patch. >From 98c530c23d9a7f86c996b028cadc2f685ec1b339 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bernhard=20=C3=9Cbelacker?= Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 10:40:37 +0200 Subject: Avoid crash when redirecting to file descriptor in expredir.

Bug#861354: dash: segmentation fault when using >&$EMPTY_VARIABLE

2017-05-06 Thread Bernhard Übelacker
Hello, tried to reproduce this issue. Unfortunately no dbgsym package is available for dash. ./build-tmp/src/dash # echo test >&$EMPTY_VARIABLE Speicherzugriffsfehler (Speicherabzug geschrieben) # coredumpctl gdb Core was generated by `./build-tmp/src/dash'. Program terminated with signal

Bug#861354: dash: segmentation fault when using >&$EMPTY_VARIABLE

2017-04-27 Thread Guus Sliepen
Package: dash Version: 0.5.8-2.4 Severity: normal When trying to redirect output to a filedescriptor contained in an environment variable, but if that variable is empty, dash crashes with a segmentation fault. To reproduce, run the following: echo test >&$EMPTY_VARIABLE -- System Information: