[bug #19491] Segmentation fault: -m 1 -A 99 '^a .b$'

[Stan Behrens]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19491>

                 Summary: Segmentation fault: -m 1 -A 99 '^a .b$'
                 Project: grep
            Submitted by: sbeh
            Submitted on: Monday 04/02/2007 at 16:51
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Hi,

Here is a way to get grep into trouble:

> cat >test.txt
a .b
a .c
^D
> grep -m 1 -A 99 '^a .b$' test.txt
a .b
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


Backtrace is:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x0804de4d in dfaexec (d=0x8059a40, begin=0x8062005 "a .c\n",
    size=4160348156, backref=0xbfbfe680) at dfa.c:2854
#1  0x08053a1e in EGexecute (buf=0x8062005 "a .c\n", size=4, match_size=0x1,
    exact=0) at search.c:430
#2  0x0804f8f0 in prpending (lim=0x806200a "") at grep.c:672
#3  0x08050366 in grepfile (file=0xbfbfea71 "test.txt", stats=0x8059680)
    at grep.c:887
#4  0x080514d7 in main (argc=7, argv=0xbfbfe944) at grep.c:1850 


Bye.




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