BASH PATCH REPORT ================= Bash-Release: 4.2 Patch-ID: bash42-014 Bug-Reported-by: Shawn Bohrer Bug-Reference-ID: <20110504152320.6E8F28130527@dev1.rgmadvisors.com> Bug-Reference-URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-05/msg00018.html Bug-Description: The regular expression matching operator did not correctly match expressions with an embedded ^A. Patch (apply with `patch -p0'): *** ../bash-4.2-patched/pathexp.c 2010-08-13 23:21:57.000000000 -0400 --- pathexp.c 2011-05-05 16:40:58.000000000 -0400 *************** *** 197,201 **** if ((qflags & QGLOB_FILENAME) && pathname[i+1] == '/') continue; ! if ((qflags & QGLOB_REGEXP) && ere_char (pathname[i+1]) == 0) continue; temp[j++] = '\\'; --- 197,201 ---- if ((qflags & QGLOB_FILENAME) && pathname[i+1] == '/') continue; ! if (pathname[i+1] != CTLESC && (qflags & QGLOB_REGEXP) && ere_char (pathname[i+1]) == 0) continue; temp[j++] = '\\'; *** ../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 13 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */ --- 26,30 ---- looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ ! #define PATCHLEVEL 14 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */