Bash-4.2 Official Patch 44

[Chet Ramey]

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

Bash-Release:   4.2
Patch-ID:       bash42-044

Bug-Reported-by:        "Dashing" <dashing@hushmail.com>
Bug-Reference-ID:       <20130211175049.D90786F446@smtp.hushmail.com>
Bug-Reference-URL:      
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2013-02/msg00030.html

Bug-Description:

When converting a multibyte string to a wide character string as part of
pattern matching, bash does not handle the end of the string correctly,
causing the search for the NUL to go beyond the end of the string and
reference random memory.  Depending on the contents of that memory, bash
can produce errors or crash. 

Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):

*** ../bash-4.2-patched/lib/glob/xmbsrtowcs.c   2012-07-08 21:53:19.000000000 
-0400
--- lib/glob/xmbsrtowcs.c       2013-02-12 12:00:39.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 217,220 ****
--- 217,226 ----
        n = mbsnrtowcs(wsbuf+wcnum, &p, nms, wsbuf_size-wcnum, &state);
  
+       if (n == 0 && p == 0)
+       {
+         wsbuf[wcnum] = L'\0';
+         break;
+       }
+ 
        /* Compensate for taking single byte on wcs conversion failure above. */
        if (wcslength == 1 && (n == 0 || n == (size_t)-1))
***************
*** 222,226 ****
          state = tmp_state;
          p = tmp_p;
!         wsbuf[wcnum++] = *p++;
        }
        else
--- 228,238 ----
          state = tmp_state;
          p = tmp_p;
!         wsbuf[wcnum] = *p;
!         if (*p == 0)
!           break;
!         else
!           {
!             wcnum++; p++;
!           }
        }
        else

*** ../bash-4.2-patched/patchlevel.h    Sat Jun 12 20:14:48 2010
--- patchlevel.h        Thu Feb 24 21:41:34 2011
***************
*** 26,30 ****
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 43
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 44
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */

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