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Message-Id: <201210171225.28965.mweckbecker@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:25:28 +0200
From: Matthias Weckbecker <mweckbecker@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: ruby file creation due in insertion of illegal NUL character
On Wednesday 17 October 2012 11:44:35 Fabian Keil wrote:
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@...thhorseman.net> wrote:
> > On 10/16/2012 08:40 AM, Matthias Weckbecker wrote:
> > > Technically, this would also apply to Perl (at least with 5.12.3).
> >
> > It's also the case with perl 5.14.2 (just tested). :/
>
> At least for Perl I consider this a feature.
>
I agree. I also think that an application which lets such things happen (ie
allow arbitrary content to be passed to open()) is rather to blame than the
language (/interpreter) itself. But the same applies to Ruby, IMO.
> The NUL byte is a special character and allows trailing white
> space in the filename that is otherwise stripped. This is
> (more or less) documented in perlopentut(1).
>
> It also seems unlikely that someone adds NUL bytes to the
> white list of acceptable characters by accident, and if there
> is no white list in the first place, the Perl script probably
> has bigger issues.
>
Ack.
> Fabian
Matthias
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