Re: [PATCH] Fix ob-latex.el command injection vulnerability.

[Ihor Radchenko]

lux <lx@shellcodes.org> writes:

>> However, for example, (shell-quote-argument "-enhance -strip") will
>> return "-enhance\\ -strip", which is not what we want.
>> 
>> Similar problem with other instances of `shell-command' in Org where
>> header args supply command line arguments. Like in :cmdline.
>> 
>
> I think there is only a need to deal with the problem of `\\ ', for
> example:
>
> (string-replace "\\ " " " (shell-quote-argument im-in-options))

No. Quoting will also affect '"' and other '\'. We must not try to be
smart here. It will miss edge cases and be fragile in general.

> Any better suggestions? Thanks.

I am afraid that we cannot make things universally safe here without
breaking changes. The best way will be treating :cmd and similar header
args as unsafe and include them into the planned safety prompt system we
discussed in https://orgmode.org/list/87edsd5o89.fsf@localhost

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