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authorDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2016-09-30 11:33:47 +0200
committerDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2016-09-30 11:33:47 +0200
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ash: [VAR] Sanitise environment variable names on entry
Upstream commit: Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:35:18 +0800 [VAR] Sanitise environment variable names on entry On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:48:48AM +0000, harald@redhat.com wrote: > "export -p" prints all environment variables, without checking if the > environment variable is a valid dash variable name. > > IMHO, the only valid usecase for "export -p" is to eval the output. > > $ eval $(export -p); echo OK > OK > > Without this patch the following test does error out with: > > test.py: > import os > os.environ["test-test"]="test" > os.environ["test_test"]="test" > os.execv("./dash", [ './dash', '-c', 'eval $(export -p); echo OK' ]) > > $ python test.py > ./dash: 1: export: test-test: bad variable name > > Of course the results can be more evil, if the environment variable > name is crafted, that it injects valid shell code. This patch fixes the issue by sanitising all environment variable names upon entry into the shell. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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