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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2015-03-23 16:12:38 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2015-03-23 16:12:38 +0100
commit2b028564f14d20cdda0c00d8ba100695b40501f5 (patch)
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parent59261ad3eb345e0d7b9f5c73e1a09d046991cea5 (diff)
Avoid SIGFPE in wordexp [BZ #18100]
Check for a zero divisor and integer overflow before performing division in arithmetic expansion.
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@comment POSIX.2
@item WRDE_SYNTAX
There was a syntax error in the input string. For example, an unmatched
-quoting character is a syntax error.
+quoting character is a syntax error. This error code is also used to
+signal division by zero and overflow in arithmetic expansion.
@end table
@end deftypefun