Re: [Bug-readline] [PATCH] Fix sv_isrchterm (set isearch-terminators) to check for NUL on the value string

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/16/15 11:26 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:

> However, it is not checking to see if v[end] is not NUL, which leads to
> a segmentation fault depending on what is on the stack when v gets
> allocated.  FWIW, I managed to reproduce the failure using the inputrc
> file attached to this message.
> 
> The patch to fix this issue is trivial.  It just checks to see if v[end]
> is not NUL before proceeding with the whitespace check.

Thanks for the report.  You have found one of the oldest bugs in readline:
that code has existed in more or less its current form for over 15 years.


> It seems that you are not using a ChangeLog file anymore, so I am
> sending only the patch.  Please let me know if I need to send anything
> else.

Readline development is done along with bash, so the bash changelog (and
devel branch) contains the readline development history.

Chet

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