BASH PATCH REPORT
=================
Bash-Release: 4.2
Patch-ID: bash42-011
Bug-Reported-by: "David Parks" <
[email protected]>
Bug-Reference-ID: <014101cc82c6$46ac1540$d4043fc0$@com>
Bug-Reference-URL:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-10/msg00031.html
Bug-Description:
Overwriting a value in an associative array causes the memory allocated to
store the key on the second and subsequent assignments to leak.
Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):
*** ../bash-4.2-patched/assoc.c 2009-08-05 20:19:40.000000000 -0400
--- assoc.c 2011-10-04 20:23:07.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 78,81 ****
--- 78,86 ----
if (b == 0)
return -1;
+ /* If we are overwriting an existing element's value, we're not going to
+ use the key. Nothing in the array assignment code path frees the key
+ string, so we can free it here to avoid a memory leak. */
+ if (b->key != key)
+ free (key);
FREE (b->data);
b->data = value ? savestring (value) : (char *)0;
*** ../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 10
#endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
! #define PATCHLEVEL 11
#endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
