Bug 675135

Summary: ksh crashes
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kshAssignee: Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.5CC: bnater, cww, kvolny, mhlavink, ovasik, pm-eus, rbiba, rkhadgar, rvokal
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Regression, ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Previously, assigning a value to an array variable during the execution of the "typeset" command could cause the shell to terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. This update corrects the array handling in this command, and ksh no longer crashes.
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Last Closed: 2011-02-28 09:52:07 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 616853    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2011-02-04 12:34:52 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #616853 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.6 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 6 Jaromir Hradilek 2011-02-07 14:56:31 UTC
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Previously, assigning a value to an array variable during the execution of the "typeset" command could cause the shell to terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. This update corrects the array handling in this command, and ksh no longer crashes.

Comment 7 Branislav NĂ¡ter 2011-02-23 17:02:10 UTC
Bugfix successfully verified on package ksh-20100202-1.el5_6.3.{i386, x86_64,
ppc, ia64, s390x}.
Reproducer from bz616853 successfully finished without any coredumps.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-02-28 09:52:07 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0304.html