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-rw-r--r--src/parser.c2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8686332..c84aa7e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-03-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+	* Avoid overflow for very long variable name.
+	$ perl -le 'print "v"x(2**31+1) ."=1"' | dash
+
 2012-02-25  Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
 
 	* Sanitise environment variable names on entry.
diff --git a/src/parser.c b/src/parser.c
index 6de2762..572cbcd 100644
--- a/src/parser.c
+++ b/src/parser.c
@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ readtoken1(int firstc, char const *syntax, char *eofmark, int striptabs)
 {
 	int c = firstc;
 	char *out;
-	int len;
+	size_t len;
 	struct nodelist *bqlist;
 	int quotef;
 	int dblquote;