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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 15:18:08 +0000
From: Leonid Isaev <leonid.isaev@...x.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Shell wildcards considered dangerous?
On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 03:42:47PM +0100, Noel Kuntze wrote:
> That is only a problem if the developer(s) foolishly didn't use "--" to
> terminate the command line options or they did, but the argument parser of
> the called program does not understand that "--" is a command line option
> terminator.
I'm sorry, but this has nothing to do with developers of PROGRAM to use or not
user "--", but rather with the user not properly sanitizing the input to the
PROGRAM and not understanding how shell works. Specifically, doing
PROGRAM *.tar is just asking for trouble for many reasons, not mentioned in the
original email. See [1] (and in general BashPitfalls) for a proper discussion...
HTH,
L.
[1] https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#for_f_in_.24.28ls_.2A.mp3.29
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Leonid Isaev
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