I found the issue with AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
The crash itself happens due to the following: dualbus@system76-pc:~/src/gnu/bash$ cat -n lib/readline/text.c | sed -n '1455,1460p' 1455 mlen = wcrtomb (mb, nwc, &mps); // <- mlen is -1, due to `nwc' being an invalid character. 1456 if (mlen > 0) 1457 mb[mlen] = '\0'; 1458 /* what to do if m != mlen? adjust below */ 1459 /* m == length of old char, mlen == length of new char */ 1460 s = rl_line_buffer + start; dualbus@system76-pc:~/src/gnu/bash$ cat -n lib/readline/text.c | sed -n '1475,1480p' 1475 rl_extend_line_buffer (mlen - m + 1); 1476 memmove (s + mlen, s + m, (e - s) - m); 1477 memcpy (s, mb, mlen); // <- mlen is negative here, thus it's an invalid `memcpy' 1478 next += mlen - m; /* next char changes */ 1479 end += mlen - m; /* end of word changes */ 1480 rl_end += mlen - m; /* end of line changes */ I'm not really sure how to fix this problem. I worked around it by changing the condition in L1456 to just return early from the function. The file I used as input: debian@debian-fuzz:/mnt$ xxd rl_change_case 00000000: f2b1 a8b1 011b 55 ......U debian@debian-fuzz:/mnt$ base64 < rl_change_case 8rGosQEbVQ== debian@debian-fuzz:/mnt$ cat -A rl_change_case M-rM-1M-(M-1^A^[U I patched bash to remove the isatty() check for `read -e', and ran (with: LC_ALL=zh_CN.gbk): (...) (gdb) r Starting program: /home/debian/build-gdb/bash --noprofile --norc -c PATH=\ read\ -e\ \<\ rl_change_case hi Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:490 490 ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt #0 __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:490 #1 0x000055555565b668 in rl_change_case (count=1, op=1) at ../../../bash-5.0-rc1/lib/readline/text.c:1477 #2 0x000055555565b201 in rl_upcase_word (count=1, key=117) at ../../../bash-5.0-rc1/lib/readline/text.c:1358 #3 0x0000555555639e9a in _rl_dispatch_subseq (key=117, map=0x5555556ac220 <emacs_meta_keymap>, got_subseq=0) at ../../../bash-5.0-rc1/lib/readline/readline.c:852 #4 0x0000555555639c11 in _rl_dispatch (key=1433811945, map=0x5555556ac220 <emacs_meta_keymap>) at ../../../bash-5.0-rc1/lib/readline/readline.c:798 #5 0x0000555555639dd7 in _rl_dispatch_subseq (key=85, map=0x5555556ac220 <emacs_meta_keymap>, got_subseq=0) at ../../../bash-5.0-rc1/lib/readline/readline.c:841 #6 0x000055555563a35f in _rl_dispatch_subseq (key=27, map=0x5555556ab200 <emacs_standard_keymap>, got_subseq=0) at ../../../bash-5.0-rc1/lib/readline/readline.c:986 #7 0x0000555555639c11 in _rl_dispatch (key=1433811945, map=0x5555556ab200 <emacs_standard_keymap>) at ../../../bash-5.0-rc1/lib/readline/readline.c:798 #8 0x0000555555639894 in readline_internal_char () at ../../../bash-5.0-rc1/lib/readline/readline.c:632 #9 0x00005555556398ef in readline_internal_charloop () at ../../../bash-5.0-rc1/lib/readline/readline.c:659 #10 0x000055555563990f in readline_internal () at ../../../bash-5.0-rc1/lib/readline/readline.c:671 #11 0x000055555563932d in readline (prompt=0x555555680f84 "") at ../../../bash-5.0-rc1/lib/readline/readline.c:377 #12 0x0000555555611b95 in edit_line (p=0x555555680f84 "", itext=0x0) at ../../bash-5.0-rc1/builtins/../../bash-5.0-rc1/builtins/read.def:1107 #13 0x00005555556108be in read_builtin (list=0x0) at ../../bash-5.0-rc1/builtins/../../bash-5.0-rc1/builtins/read.def:566 #14 0x00005555555a5afa in execute_builtin (builtin=0x55555560fa39 <read_builtin>, words=0x555555761ea8, flags=0, subshell=0) at ../bash-5.0-rc1/execute_cmd.c:4706 #15 0x00005555555a6aa2 in execute_builtin_or_function (words=0x555555761ea8, builtin=0x55555560fa39 <read_builtin>, var=0x0, redirects=0x555555761c08, fds_to_close=0x555555761be8, flags=0) at ../bash-5.0-rc1/execute_cmd.c:5214 #16 0x00005555555a5365 in execute_simple_command (simple_command=0x555555761ac8, pipe_in=-1, pipe_out=-1, async=0, fds_to_close=0x555555761be8) at ../bash-5.0-rc1/execute_cmd.c:4476 #17 0x000055555559e9f4 in execute_command_internal (command=0x555555761a88, asynchronous=0, pipe_in=-1, pipe_out=-1, fds_to_close=0x555555761be8) at ../bash-5.0-rc1/execute_cmd.c:842 #18 0x0000555555608550 in parse_and_execute (string=0x5555557616c8 "PATH= read -e < rl_change_case", from_file=0x5555556690f0 "-c", flags=4) at ../../bash-5.0-rc1/builtins/evalstring.c:436 #19 0x000055555558564a in run_one_command (command=0x7fffffffe280 "PATH= read -e < rl_change_case") at ../bash-5.0-rc1/shell.c:1426 #20 0x0000555555584789 in main (argc=5, argv=0x7fffffffdfd8, env=0x7fffffffe008) at ../bash-5.0-rc1/shell.c:741 (gdb) frame 1 #1 0x000055555565b668 in rl_change_case (count=1, op=1) at ../../../bash-5.0-rc1/lib/readline/text.c:1477 1477 memcpy (s, mb, mlen); (gdb) p s $1 = 0x555555763c0a "��" (gdb) p mb $2 = '\000' <repeats 16 times> (gdb) p mlen $3 = -1