BASH PATCH REPORT
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Bash-Release: 5.3
Patch-ID: bash53-006
Bug-Reported-by: Duncan Roe <[email protected]>
Bug-Reference-ID: <aL0p/[email protected]>
Bug-Reference-URL:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2025-09/msg00053.html
Bug-Description:
When `globasciiranges' is enabled, glob patterns with ranges in bracket
expressions can produce incorrect matches for character ranges whose
start and end are non-ascii characters.
Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):
*** ../bash-5.3-patched/lib/glob/smatch.c Mon May 29 14:15:17 2023
--- lib/glob/smatch.c Mon Sep 8 12:54:59 2025
***************
*** 391,395 ****
return 0;
! if (forcecoll == 0 && glob_asciirange && c1 <= UCHAR_MAX && c2 <= UCHAR_MAX)
return ((int)(c1 - c2));
--- 391,395 ----
return 0;
! if (forcecoll == 0 && glob_asciirange)
return ((int)(c1 - c2));
*** ../bash-5.3/patchlevel.h 2020-06-22 14:51:03.000000000 -0400
--- patchlevel.h 2020-10-01 11:01:28.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 26,30 ****
looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
! #define PATCHLEVEL 5
#endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
! #define PATCHLEVEL 6
#endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
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