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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:45:06 +0000
From: Steve Kemp <steve@...ve.org.uk>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-Request - GNU Awk.
> Why should these get a CVE? As you state in one of your reports:
>
> > While I appreciate that passing untrusted code to gawk is not a
> > common thing to do, I do not believe that it should be possible to
> > trigger a segfault though.
>
> Why should that be considered a valid / safe use case at all? If
> something makes awk run untrusted programs, there's code execution
> problem already:
While I suspect there is virtually no situation whereby a service
would allow the upload/processing of arbitrary awk in the wild, I
do believe that no (semi)valid program should terminate the intepreter
with a segfault.
That is the reason why I believe that that it is worthy of an
identifier. Though I will avoid making future requests for similar
issues if I'm alone in that belief!
Steve
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