BASH PATCH REPORT

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Bash-Release:	4.2

Patch-ID:	bash42-011

Bug-Reported-by:	"David Parks" <[email protected]>

Bug-Reference-ID:	<014101cc82c6$46ac1540$d4043fc0$@com>

Bug-Reference-URL:	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-10/msg00031.html

Bug-Description:

Overwriting a value in an associative array causes the memory allocated to

store the key on the second and subsequent assignments to leak.

Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):

*** ../bash-4.2-patched/assoc.c	2009-08-05 20:19:40.000000000 -0400

--- assoc.c	2011-10-04 20:23:07.000000000 -0400

***************

*** 78,81 ****

--- 78,86 ----

    if (b == 0)

      return -1;

+   /* If we are overwriting an existing element's value, we're not going to

+      use the key.  Nothing in the array assignment code path frees the key

+      string, so we can free it here to avoid a memory leak. */

+   if (b->key != key)

+     free (key);

    FREE (b->data);

    b->data = value ? savestring (value) : (char *)0;

*** ../bash-4.2-patched/patchlevel.h	Sat Jun 12 20:14:48 2010

--- patchlevel.h	Thu Feb 24 21:41:34 2011

***************

*** 26,30 ****

     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */

! #define PATCHLEVEL 10

  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */

--- 26,30 ----

     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */

! #define PATCHLEVEL 11

  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */