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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:51:39 +0200
From: Matthias Weckbecker <mweckbecker@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: ruby file creation due in insertion of illegal NUL character
On Wednesday 17 October 2012 20:14:22 Simon McVittie wrote:
[...]
>
> For Perl, one possibility would be to continue to treat an input of
> "foo\0" as equivalent to "foo" (so that you can use "./ foo \0" to
> mean " foo ", as documented), but disallow NULs anywhere except the
> last position.
>
Although this is a very elegant solution it's on the other hand probably not
trivially implemented, because NUL is mostly treated as the end of a string.
Simply reading beyond it to check whether there is something else that might
need to be taken into account will likely result in more work for Kurt. ;-)
> S
Matthias
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