			     BASH PATCH REPORT
			     =================

Bash-Release:	4.1
Patch-ID:	bash41-008

Bug-Reported-by:	Dennis van Dok <dvandok@gmail.com>
Bug-Reference-ID:	<4BBF2501.5050703@gmail.com>
Bug-Reference-URL:	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2010-04/msg00038.html

Bug-Description:

When declaring an associative array and implicitly assigning a value
to element "0", bash does not correctly allocate memory, leading to
a segmentation violation when that element or the array itself is
unset.

Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):

*** ../bash-4.1-patched/builtins/declare.def	2009-11-25 19:42:00.000000000 -0500
--- ./builtins/declare.def	2010-05-30 18:25:21.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 513,517 ****
  	      /* let bind_{array,assoc}_variable take care of this. */
  	      if (assoc_p (var))
! 		bind_assoc_variable (var, name, "0", value, aflags);
  	      else
  		bind_array_variable (name, 0, value, aflags);
--- 519,523 ----
  	      /* let bind_{array,assoc}_variable take care of this. */
  	      if (assoc_p (var))
! 		bind_assoc_variable (var, name, savestring ("0"), value, aflags);
  	      else
  		bind_array_variable (name, 0, value, aflags);
*** ../bash-4.1-patched/patchlevel.h	2009-10-01 16:39:22.000000000 -0400
--- ./patchlevel.h	2010-01-14 09:38:08.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 26,30 ****
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 7
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 8
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */