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bug#19998: GREP_OPTIONS alternative?
From: |
Christian Kujau |
Subject: |
bug#19998: GREP_OPTIONS alternative? |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:13:19 -0700 (PDT) |
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Alpine 2.19.4 (DEB 40 2013-11-18) |
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 at 19:11, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > An "attacker" can set $PATH to /tmp and do stuff too.
>
> Sure, but that's well-known and standardized and it's easy (and expected) for
> administrative applications to sanitize PATH. The problem comes when we have
s/PATH/TMPDIR/ - or LD_PRELOAD or LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc. All "well known"
and "potentially dangerous" if not cared for.
I relalize of course that you won't change your mind about GREP_OPTIONS,
but I'm a bit surpised that such a visible change in userspace was done
w/o any consideration of the users of said feature. Oh well...
Christian.
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