BASH PATCH REPORT ================= Bash-Release: 4.2 Patch-ID: bash42-017 Bug-Reported-by: Curtis Doty Bug-Reference-ID: <20110621035324.A4F70849F59@mx1.iParadigms.net> Bug-Reference-URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-06/msg00053.html Bug-Description: Using `read -a foo' where foo was an already-declared associative array caused the shell to die with a segmentation fault. Patch (apply with `patch -p0'): *** ../bash-4.2-patched/builtins/read.def 2011-01-04 11:43:36.000000000 -0500 --- builtins/read.def 2011-06-21 10:31:02.000000000 -0400 *************** *** 643,646 **** --- 642,651 ---- return EXECUTION_FAILURE; /* readonly or noassign */ } + if (assoc_p (var)) + { + builtin_error (_("%s: cannot convert associative to indexed array"), arrayname); + xfree (input_string); + return EXECUTION_FAILURE; /* existing associative array */ + } array_flush (array_cell (var)); *** ../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 16 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */ --- 26,30 ---- looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ ! #define PATCHLEVEL 17 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */