Re: [Orgmode] [BUG] [Babel] Quotes-in-strings not being escaped in python, breaking output

[Christopher Allan Webber]

I worry about this a bit because of the possible security issue: the
ability to execute arbitrary code, since the structure that gets
constructed is eval'ed.

eg:

#+BEGIN_SRC python
return [['607', 'Show license short name on the deed'],
        ['255', "'))(message (concat 'hello ' 'world"]]
#+END_SRC

That constructs a set of listp objects which are evaluated and look
like:

'(("607" "Show license short name on the deed") ("255" ""))
(message (concat "hello " "world"))

It doesn't seem like the second one is being evaluated but it makes me
nervous that it's being passed through eval like this at all.

Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> writes:

> It looks like \' and " are not being escaped in
> org-babel-python-table-or-string, which is the problem.
>
> Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Strings with quotes in them aren't having the inner quotes escaped right
>> while read by ob-python in python.  Example:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC python
>> return [['607', 'Show license short name on the deed'],
>>         ['255', '"Smart" 404 pages']]
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> #+results:
>> | 607 | Show license short name on the deed |       |           |
>> | 255 |                                     | Smart | 404 pages |
>>
>>
>>
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