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Re: [Bug-readline] Null pointer dereference in _rl_copy_to_kill_ring
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Bug-readline] Null pointer dereference in _rl_copy_to_kill_ring |
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Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:51:25 -0400 |
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On 6/26/17 1:53 PM, Clayton Smith wrote:
> The following keypresses seem to crash readline:
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> 0 Escape 0 Backspace Ctrl-W
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> Typing those keystrokes into just about any program that uses readline
> (e.g. bash, gdb, python) causes a segfault. I've tested this on Ubuntu
> 14.04, 16.04 and 17.04. Also, I was able to reproduce a crash on OS X when
> I downloaded and built libreadline.
Thanks for the report. This was fixed back in the May 5 (bash) push,
ironically as the result of a different fuzzing effort. The past two
readline devel branch pushes include the fix.
Chet
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