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-rw-r--r--tests/misc/Makefile.am3
-rwxr-xr-xtests/misc/ptx-overrun40
2 files changed, 42 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/misc/Makefile.am b/tests/misc/Makefile.am
index 2be132f30..f3ed13209 100644
--- a/tests/misc/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/misc/Makefile.am
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# Make miscellaneous coreutils tests. -*-Makefile-*-
-# Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ TESTS = \
ls-time \
ls-misc \
date \
+ ptx-overrun \
xstrtol \
od \
mktemp \
diff --git a/tests/misc/ptx-overrun b/tests/misc/ptx-overrun
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..beadf7f1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/misc/ptx-overrun
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Trigger a heap-clobbering bug in ptx from coreutils-6.10 and earlier.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+ set -x
+ ptx --version
+fi
+
+. $srcdir/../test-lib.sh
+
+# Using a long file name makes an abort more likely.
+# Even with no file name, valgrind detects the buffer overrun.
+f=01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
+touch $f empty || framework_failure
+
+fail=0
+
+# Specifying a regular expression ending in a lone backslash
+# would cause ptx to write beyond the end of a malloc'd buffer.
+ptx -F '\' $f < /dev/null > out || fail=1
+ptx -S 'foo\' $f < /dev/null >> out || fail=1
+ptx -W 'bar\\\' $f < /dev/null >> out || fail=1
+compare out empty || fail=1
+
+(exit $fail); exit $fail