Public bug reported:

Redirection to an empty variable causes `dash` to exit abnormally via
SIGSEGV.


1) $ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Release:        16.04
2) $ apt-cache policy dash
dash:
  Installed: 0.5.8-2.1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.5.8-2.1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.8-2.1ubuntu2 500
        500 http://ua.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) Script to reproduce:
$ cat test.sh 

foobar() {
        local a=$1
        echo abc >&$a
}
foobar

4) Result:
$ dash ~/cloudlinux/kernelcare/test.sh 
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

** Affects: dash (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  redir to an empty variable

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