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Re: [Bug-readline] Null pointer dereference in _rl_copy_to_kill_ring


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Bug-readline] Null pointer dereference in _rl_copy_to_kill_ring
Date: 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:
> 
>     0  Escape  0  Backspace  Ctrl-W
> 
> 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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