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			     BASH PATCH REPORT
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Bash-Release:	4.2
Patch-ID:	bash42-011

Bug-Reported-by:	"David Parks" <davidparks21@yahoo.com>
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_ */