Bash-4.0 Official Patch 42

[Chet Ramey]

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

Bash-Release: 4.0
Patch-ID: bash40-042

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-4.0.41/parse.y      2014-09-27 12:17:56.000000000 -0400
--- parse.y     2014-09-30 19:41:09.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 167,170 ****
--- 167,173 ----
  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));
***************
*** 262,266 ****
  /* 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;
  
--- 265,271 ----
  /* 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;
  
***************
*** 301,305 ****
     index is decremented after a case, select, or for command is parsed. */
  #define MAX_CASE_NEST 128
! static int word_lineno[MAX_CASE_NEST];
  static int word_top = -1;
  
--- 306,310 ----
     index is decremented after a case, select, or for command is parsed. */
  #define MAX_CASE_NEST 128
! static int word_lineno[MAX_CASE_NEST+1];
  static int word_top = -1;
  
***************
*** 452,456 ****
                          redir.filename = $2;
                          $$ = make_redirection (0, r_reading_until, redir);
!                         redir_stack[need_here_doc++] = $$;
                        }
        |       NUMBER LESS_LESS WORD
--- 457,461 ----
                          redir.filename = $2;
                          $$ = make_redirection (0, r_reading_until, redir);
!                         push_heredoc ($$);
                        }
        |       NUMBER LESS_LESS WORD
***************
*** 458,462 ****
                          redir.filename = $3;
                          $$ = make_redirection ($1, r_reading_until, redir);
!                         redir_stack[need_here_doc++] = $$;
                        }
        |       LESS_LESS_LESS WORD
--- 463,467 ----
                          redir.filename = $3;
                          $$ = make_redirection ($1, r_reading_until, redir);
!                         push_heredoc ($$);
                        }
        |       LESS_LESS_LESS WORD
***************
*** 515,519 ****
                          $$ = make_redirection
                            (0, r_deblank_reading_until, redir);
!                         redir_stack[need_here_doc++] = $$;
                        }
        |       NUMBER LESS_LESS_MINUS WORD
--- 520,524 ----
                          $$ = make_redirection
                            (0, r_deblank_reading_until, redir);
!                         push_heredoc ($$);
                        }
        |       NUMBER LESS_LESS_MINUS WORD
***************
*** 522,526 ****
                          $$ = make_redirection
                            ($1, r_deblank_reading_until, redir);
!                         redir_stack[need_here_doc++] = $$;
                        }
        |       GREATER_AND '-'
--- 527,531 ----
                          $$ = make_redirection
                            ($1, r_deblank_reading_until, redir);
!                         push_heredoc ($$);
                        }
        |       GREATER_AND '-'
***************
*** 2377,2380 ****
--- 2382,2400 ----
  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 ()
*** ../bash-4.0/patchlevel.h    2009-01-04 14:32:40.000000000 -0500
--- patchlevel.h        2009-02-22 16:11:31.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 26,30 ****
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 41
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 42
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/