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

Bash-Release:	4.3
Patch-ID:	bash43-031

Bug-Reported-by:	lolilolicon <[email protected]>
Bug-Reference-ID:	<CAMtVo_Nz=32Oq=zWTb6=+8gUNXOo2rRvud1W4oPnA-cgVk_ZqQ@mail.gmail.com>
Bug-Reference-URL:	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-08/msg00139.html

Bug-Description:

The new nameref assignment functionality introduced in bash-4.3 did not perform
enough validation on the variable value and would create variables with
invalid names.

Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):

*** ../bash-4.3-patched/subst.h	2014-01-11 21:02:27.000000000 -0500
--- subst.h	2014-09-01 12:16:56.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 48,51 ****
--- 48,52 ----
  #define ASS_MKGLOBAL	0x0008	/* force global assignment */
  #define ASS_NAMEREF	0x0010	/* assigning to nameref variable */
+ #define ASS_FROMREF	0x0020	/* assigning from value of nameref variable */
  
  /* Flags for the string extraction functions. */
*** ../bash-4.3-patched/variables.c	2014-05-15 08:26:50.000000000 -0400
--- variables.c	2014-09-01 14:37:44.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 2504,2511 ****
       int hflags, aflags;
  {
!   char *newval;
    SHELL_VAR *entry;
  
    entry = (hflags & HASH_NOSRCH) ? (SHELL_VAR *)NULL : hash_lookup (name, table);
    /* Follow the nameref chain here if this is the global variables table */
    if (entry && nameref_p (entry) && (invisible_p (entry) == 0) && table == global_variables->table)
--- 2566,2590 ----
       int hflags, aflags;
  {
!   char *newname, *newval;
    SHELL_VAR *entry;
+ #if defined (ARRAY_VARS)
+   arrayind_t ind;
+   char *subp;
+   int sublen;
+ #endif
  
+   newname = 0;
+ #if defined (ARRAY_VARS)
+   if ((aflags & ASS_FROMREF) && (hflags & HASH_NOSRCH) == 0 && valid_array_reference (name))
+     {
+       newname = array_variable_name (name, &subp, &sublen);
+       if (newname == 0)
+ 	return (SHELL_VAR *)NULL;	/* XXX */
+       entry = hash_lookup (newname, table);
+     }
+   else
+ #endif
    entry = (hflags & HASH_NOSRCH) ? (SHELL_VAR *)NULL : hash_lookup (name, table);
+ 
    /* Follow the nameref chain here if this is the global variables table */
    if (entry && nameref_p (entry) && (invisible_p (entry) == 0) && table == global_variables->table)
***************
*** 2538,2541 ****
--- 2617,2630 ----
        }
      }
+ #if defined (ARRAY_VARS)
+   else if (entry == 0 && newname)
+     {
+       entry = make_new_array_variable (newname);	/* indexed array by default */
+       if (entry == 0)
+ 	return entry;
+       ind = array_expand_index (name, subp, sublen);
+       bind_array_element (entry, ind, value, aflags);
+     }
+ #endif
    else if (entry == 0)
      {
***************
*** 2658,2662 ****
  		      if (nameref_cell (nv) == 0)
  			return (bind_variable_internal (nv->name, value, nvc->table, 0, flags));
! 		      return (bind_variable_internal (nameref_cell (nv), value, nvc->table, 0, flags));
  		    }
  		  else
--- 2747,2752 ----
  		      if (nameref_cell (nv) == 0)
  			return (bind_variable_internal (nv->name, value, nvc->table, 0, flags));
! 		      /* XXX - bug here with ref=array[index] */
! 		      return (bind_variable_internal (nameref_cell (nv), value, nvc->table, 0, flags|ASS_FROMREF));
  		    }
  		  else
*** ../bash-4.3/patchlevel.h	2012-12-29 10:47:57.000000000 -0500
--- patchlevel.h	2014-03-20 20:01:28.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 26,30 ****
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 30
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 31
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */