[Bug 295086] /bin/sh undefined variable in heredoc triggers assertion
Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 18:01:14 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295086
Bug ID: 295086
Summary: /bin/sh undefined variable in heredoc triggers
assertion
Product: Base System
Version: 15.0-RELEASE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: bin
Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
Reporter: editor@callfortesting.org
More verbose: /bin/sh undefined variable reference inside of heredoc variable
assignment inside command expansion triggers assertion
This shell script triggers an assertion that probably should be caught by the
pre-processor:
#!/bin/sh
set -u
thing="$(cat << eol)"
Hello! $_some_unset_variable
eol
Output
test.sh: _some_unset_variable: parameter not set
Unsafe ckmalloc() call
Abort trap (core dumped)
bin/sh/memalloc.c
62: badalloc("Unsafe ckmalloc() call\n");
Verified on 15.0R, 14.x AMD64, 15.1-BETA1 ARM64
Discovered by: Alexey Laurentsyeu
Verified by: Hayzam S, Jan B, Michael D
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