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Re: [perl #93638] Incorrect entry in $LS_COLORS causes glob() failures

From:
Ed Avis
Date:
June 29, 2011 06:34
Subject:
Re: [perl #93638] Incorrect entry in $LS_COLORS causes glob() failures
Message ID:
loom.20110629T152857-23@post.gmane.org
Nicholas Clark <nick <at> ccl4.org> writes:

>[Sadly, I can't find reference to the far more "fun" bug, whereby at
>csh start time, the current directory's name could end up being subject to
>string evaluation, *with interpolation*, meaning that a nicely crafted
>directory pathname could exploit any setuid script that happened to call
>glob.

Another bug caused by csh is that globbing doesn't work with filenames containing
a space.  That particular misfeature was preserved when the code was moved into
perl itself.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>




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