Re: Use of uninitialized values in mail checking

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/21/12 11:47 AM, szymon.kalasz@uj.edu.pl wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 29
> Release Status: release
> 
> 
> I found that behavior of bash depends on uninitialized values in memory.
> In function file_mod_date_changed (mailcheck.c), if mailstat returns a
> non-zero
> value, we are checking condition finfo.st_size == 0, where finfo.st_size is
> uninitialized. In those rare cases when finfo.st_size is zero and
> mailfiles[i]->file_size > 0 we update mailfiles array with some random values
> (while the file may even not exist).

Thanks for the report.  This will be fixed in the next version of bash.

Chet

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