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

Bash-Release: 4.0
Patch-ID: bash40-005

Bug-Reported-by:	Pierre Gaston <pierre.gaston@gmail.com>
Bug-Reference-ID:	<c440c9800902242338n69f594a4nd66b8748def9cf18@mail.gmail.com>
Bug-Reference-URL:	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2009-02/msg00206.html

Bug-Description:

The `declare' builtin dumped core when attempting to assign associative
array indices containing some special characters, even when they were
quoted before being expanded.

Patch:

*** ../bash-4.0/builtins/declare.def	2009-01-04 14:32:22.000000000 -0500
--- builtins/declare.def	2009-02-26 11:40:16.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 296,299 ****
--- 296,306 ----
        if (t = strchr (name, '['))	/* ] */
  	{
+ 	  /* If offset != 0 we have already validated any array reference */
+ 	  if (offset == 0 && valid_array_reference (name) == 0)
+ 	    {
+ 	      sh_invalidid (name);
+ 	      assign_error++;
+ 	      NEXT_VARIABLE ();
+ 	    }
  	  subscript_start = t;
  	  *t = '\0';
***************
*** 485,489 ****
  	  /* declare -a name[[n]] or declare name[n] makes name an indexed
  	     array variable. */
! 	  else if ((making_array_special || (flags_on & att_array)) && array_p (var) == 0)
  	    var = convert_var_to_array (var);
  #endif /* ARRAY_VARS */
--- 492,496 ----
  	  /* declare -a name[[n]] or declare name[n] makes name an indexed
  	     array variable. */
! 	  else if ((making_array_special || (flags_on & att_array)) && array_p (var) == 0 && assoc_p (var) == 0)
  	    var = convert_var_to_array (var);
  #endif /* ARRAY_VARS */
*** ../bash-4.0/patchlevel.h	2009-01-04 14:32:40.000000000 -0500
--- patchlevel.h	2009-02-22 16:11:31.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 26,30 ****
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 4
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 5
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */