Patch-ID# 100009-01 Keywords: bourne shell environment variable Synopsis: Bourne shell functions can corrupt environment Date: 04-Aug-89 SunOS release: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.3 Bug ID's fixed with this patch: 1015339 Architectures for which this patch is available: sun3 sun4 (this also includes sun3x and sun4c) Obsoleted by: 4.1 Problem description: Creation of Bourne shell internal functions can corrupt the environment. The shell adds functions to the environment but no space is allocated for them, thus it can overwrite and destroy normal environment variables.