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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:42:51 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Simon McVittie <smcv@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: Geany IDE not escaping filenames during compilation
/ build - a security issue or not?
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On 12/13/2012 04:12 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> (Incidentally, Geany is written using Gtk and GLib, and GLib
> already has a function g_shell_quote() which escapes arbitrary
> filenames for /bin/sh.)
>
> If shell syntax is not specifically needed, it would be even better
> to use a mechanism not involving parsing shell syntax, like
> posix_spawn(), GLib's g_spawn_async() or Python's os.spawn* family,
> to launch the compiler (analogous to using prepared statements to
> avoid ever having to think about SQL escaping or SQL injection).
If anyone knows similar functions/etc for other programming languages
please let me know off list so I can compile a list of these and then
post them for future reference. Thanks!
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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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