From https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.4-patches/bash44-001

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

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

Bash-Release:	4.4
Patch-ID:	bash44-001

Bug-Reported-by:	Sean Zha <freeman_cha@hotmail.com>
Bug-Reference-ID:	<BN3PR01MB13657D9303EB94BF6E54216E8CCA0@BN3PR01MB1365.prod.exchangelabs.com>
Bug-Reference-URL:	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00107.html

Bug-Description:

Bash-4.4 changed the way the history list is initially allocated to reduce
the number of reallocations and copies.  Users who set HISTSIZE to a very
large number to essentially unlimit the size of the history list will get
memory allocation errors 

Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):

*** a/bash-4.4/lib/readline/history.c	2015-12-28 13:50:31.000000000 -0500
--- b/lib/readline/history.c	2016-09-30 14:28:40.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 58,61 ****
--- 58,63 ----
  #define DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE	502
  
+ #define MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE	8192
+ 
  /* The number of slots to increase the_history by. */
  #define DEFAULT_HISTORY_GROW_SIZE 50
***************
*** 308,312 ****
  	{
  	  if (history_stifled && history_max_entries > 0)
! 	    history_size = history_max_entries + 2;
  	  else
  	    history_size = DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE;
--- 310,316 ----
  	{
  	  if (history_stifled && history_max_entries > 0)
! 	    history_size = (history_max_entries > MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE)
! 				? MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE
! 				: history_max_entries + 2;
  	  else
  	    history_size = DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE;
*** a/bash-4.4/patchlevel.h	2016-06-22 14:51:03.000000000 -0400
--- b/patchlevel.h	2016-10-01 11:01:28.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 26,30 ****
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 0
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 1
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */