Bash-2.05b Official Patch 11

[Chet Ramey]

                             BASH PATCH REPORT
                             =================

Bash-Release: 2.05b
Patch-ID: bash205b-011

Bug-Reported-by:        Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Bug-Reference-ID:
Bug-Reference-URL:

Bug-Description:

There are two local buffer overflows in parse.y that can cause the shell
to dump core when given many here-documents attached to a single command
or many nested loops.

Patch:

*** ../bash-2.05b.10/parse.y    2014-09-25 16:46:51.000000000 -0400
--- parse.y     2014-09-30 19:58:09.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 162,165 ****
--- 162,168 ----
  static int reserved_word_acceptable __P((int));
  static int yylex __P((void));
+ 
+ static void push_heredoc __P((REDIRECT *));
+ static char *mk_alexpansion __P((char *));
  static int alias_expand_token __P((char *));
  static int time_command_acceptable __P((void));
***************
*** 249,253 ****
  /* Variables to manage the task of reading here documents, because we need to
     defer the reading until after a complete command has been collected. */
! static REDIRECT *redir_stack[10];
  int need_here_doc;
  
--- 252,258 ----
  /* Variables to manage the task of reading here documents, because we need to
     defer the reading until after a complete command has been collected. */
! #define HEREDOC_MAX 16
! 
! static REDIRECT *redir_stack[HEREDOC_MAX];
  int need_here_doc;
  
***************
*** 405,409 ****
                          redir.filename = $2;
                          $$ = make_redirection (0, r_reading_until, redir);
!                         redir_stack[need_here_doc++] = $$;
                        }
        |       NUMBER LESS_LESS WORD
--- 410,414 ----
                          redir.filename = $2;
                          $$ = make_redirection (0, r_reading_until, redir);
!                         push_heredoc ($$);
                        }
        |       NUMBER LESS_LESS WORD
***************
*** 411,415 ****
                          redir.filename = $3;
                          $$ = make_redirection ($1, r_reading_until, redir);
!                         redir_stack[need_here_doc++] = $$;
                        }
        |       LESS_LESS_LESS WORD
--- 416,420 ----
                          redir.filename = $3;
                          $$ = make_redirection ($1, r_reading_until, redir);
!                         push_heredoc ($$);
                        }
        |       LESS_LESS_LESS WORD
***************
*** 468,472 ****
                          $$ = make_redirection
                            (0, r_deblank_reading_until, redir);
!                         redir_stack[need_here_doc++] = $$;
                        }
        |       NUMBER LESS_LESS_MINUS WORD
--- 473,477 ----
                          $$ = make_redirection
                            (0, r_deblank_reading_until, redir);
!                         push_heredoc ($$);
                        }
        |       NUMBER LESS_LESS_MINUS WORD
***************
*** 475,479 ****
                          $$ = make_redirection
                            ($1, r_deblank_reading_until, redir);
!                         redir_stack[need_here_doc++] = $$;
                        }
        |       GREATER_AND '-'
--- 480,484 ----
                          $$ = make_redirection
                            ($1, r_deblank_reading_until, redir);
!                         push_heredoc ($$);
                        }
        |       GREATER_AND '-'
***************
*** 2090,2093 ****
--- 2095,2113 ----
  static int esacs_needed_count;
  
+ static void
+ push_heredoc (r)
+      REDIRECT *r;
+ {
+   if (need_here_doc >= HEREDOC_MAX)
+     {
+       last_command_exit_value = EX_BADUSAGE;
+       need_here_doc = 0;
+       report_syntax_error (_("maximum here-document count exceeded"));
+       reset_parser ();
+       exit_shell (last_command_exit_value);
+     }
+   redir_stack[need_here_doc++] = r;
+ }
+ 
  void
  gather_here_documents ()

-- 
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                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/