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Re: Integer overflow in command substitution
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Eduardo A . Bustamante López |
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Re: Integer overflow in command substitution |
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Thu, 16 Nov 2017 07:48:41 -0600 |
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NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) |
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 06:50:59AM -0500, Siteshwar Vashisht wrote:
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> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 12
> Release Status: release
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> Repeat-By:
> $ bash -c 'true $(yes xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)'
> bash: xrealloc: cannot allocate 18446744071562067968 bytes
Interesting! I think this might explain the behavior reported in:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-11/msg00051.html