[Bug 146746] Re: bash crashes with infinitive recursion

[B Bobo]

Appears to have been fixed in bash 4.2.25

** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Title:
  bash crashes with infinitive recursion

Status in “bash” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: bash

  Steps to reproduce:

  ===
  # cat crash.sh 
  f() {
      if true; then
          f xx
      fi
  }

  f xx

  # bash crash.sh
  segmentation fault  bash crash.sh

  # bash --version
  GNU bash, version 3.2.13(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
  Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  ===

  Expected behaviour: message "stack overflow in crash.sh" printed to
  stderr, nonzero exit code.

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