BASH PATCH REPORT ================= Bash-Release: 4.2 Patch-ID: bash42-043 Bug-Reported-by: konsolebox Bug-Reference-ID: Bug-Reference-URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2013-01/msg00138.html Bug-Description: When SIGCHLD is trapped, and a SIGCHLD trap handler runs when a pending `read -t' invocation times out and generates SIGALRM, bash can crash with a segmentation fault. Patch (apply with `patch -p0'): --- a/builtins/read.def +++ b/builtins/read.def @@ -385,10 +385,20 @@ read_builtin (list) { /* Tricky. The top of the unwind-protect stack is the free of input_string. We want to run all the rest and use input_string, - so we have to remove it from the stack. */ - remove_unwind_protect (); - run_unwind_frame ("read_builtin"); + so we have to save input_string temporarily, run the unwind- + protects, then restore input_string so we can use it later. */ + input_string[i] = '\0'; /* make sure it's terminated */ + if (i == 0) + { + t = (char *)xmalloc (1); + t[0] = 0; + } + else + t = savestring (input_string); + + run_unwind_frame ("read_builtin"); + input_string = t; retval = 128+SIGALRM; goto assign_vars; } --- a/patchlevel.h +++ b/patchlevel.h @@ -25,6 +25,6 @@ regexp `^#define[ ]*PATCHLEVEL', since that's what support/mkversion.sh looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ -#define PATCHLEVEL 42 +#define PATCHLEVEL 43 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */