BASH PATCH REPORT
=================
Bash-Release: 4.1
Patch-ID: bash41-010
Bug-Reported-by: Stephane Jourdois <sjourd...@gmail.com>
Bug-Reference-ID:
<aanlktimbh1t2bmcjncgacpeidarjmbietr30vv3vz...@mail.gmail.com>
Bug-Reference-URL:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2010-05/msg00165.html
Bug-Description:
The expansion of the \W prompt string escape sequence incorrectly used
strcpy to copy overlapping strings. Only memmove works in this case.
Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):
*** ../bash-4.1-patched/parse.y 2009-12-30 12:51:42.000000000 -0500
--- parse.y 2011-02-24 16:40:48.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 5153,5157 ****
t = strrchr (t_string, '/');
if (t)
! strcpy (t_string, t + 1);
}
}
--- 5153,5157 ----
t = strrchr (t_string, '/');
if (t)
! memmove (t_string, t + 1, strlen (t));
}
}
*** ../bash-4.1-patched/y.tab.c 2009-12-30 12:52:02.000000000 -0500
--- y.tab.c 2011-02-24 16:50:27.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 7482,7486 ****
t = strrchr (t_string, '/');
if (t)
! strcpy (t_string, t + 1);
}
}
--- 7482,7486 ----
t = strrchr (t_string, '/');
if (t)
! memmove (t_string, t + 1, strlen (t));
}
}
***************
*** 8244,8246 ****
}
#endif /* HANDLE_MULTIBYTE */
-
--- 8244,8245 ----
*** ../bash-4.1-patched/patchlevel.h 2009-10-01 16:39:22.000000000 -0400
--- patchlevel.h 2010-01-14 09:38:08.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 26,30 ****
looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
! #define PATCHLEVEL 9
#endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
! #define PATCHLEVEL 10
#endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--
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