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Re: BASH recursion segfault, FUNCNEST doesn't help


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: BASH recursion segfault, FUNCNEST doesn't help
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 09:57:50 -0400
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On 6/1/22 4:49 PM, Gergely wrote:
Hi,


I stumbled upon a recursion overflow crash in BASH. It affects both my
Debian machine (this report), as well as the latest stable built from
source.

Yes, you created an infinitely recursive script. It's a race to see whether
you exceed your stack or VM resource limit first. Since you're not
executing within a shell function, FUNCNEST has no effect.


There's a slim chance this might be exploitable.

I'm skeptical.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/



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