> > bash-4.3.tar\bash-4.3\lib\sh\unicode.c:
> > *line 87: *strcpy (charsetbuf, locale);
> 
> Thanks for the report.  This is a potential vulnerability if the value of
> the LC_CTYPE variable is longer than 40 characters.

I should have added that this is only a problem on systems that don't have
an implementation of locale_charset in libc/libintl/libiconv and aren't using
the libintl shipped with bash.

Chet

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