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Message-ID: <50C9F232.7000905@herbesfolles.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:20:18 +0100
From: Colomban Wendling <lists.ban@...besfolles.org>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@....se>
CC: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
Eitan Adler <lists@...anadler.com>,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven@...nternet.com>,
Enrico Troeger <enrico.troeger@...na.de>,
Matthew Brush <mbrush@...ebrainz.ca>,
Frank Lanitz <frank@...nk.uvena.de>, josef@...icpanda.com,
jonathan underwood <jonathan.underwood@...il.com>,
oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Geany IDE not escaping filenames during compilation
/ build - a security issue or not?
Le 13/12/2012 12:51, Andreas Ericsson a écrit :
> On 12/13/2012 12:21 PM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> [...]
>
>> The difference when running it directly from the command line is
>> that Bash would escape those files for you, so even with crafted names
>> nothing bad / suspicious would happen (and project would build
>> if syntactically correct).
>>
>
> Except that people wouldn't manually compile thousands of files
> one by one. That's where build systems come in.
Yes, and for manual compilation to even have a chance to work one would
tweak a lot the build command to match the project's needs (inclusion
paths, link paths, etc.), so one has to be told to do so.
So I don't think it's more problematic than telling an user to run say,
"sudo cp -f that_file_I_sent_you /bin/sh". Nobody can protect an user
from that, only the user can do it.
>> To the difference, in the Geany scenario, the file name(s) would
>> be passed to command line directly as they are (and if the project
>> would build or not at the end isn't what matters here).
>>
>
> For the original report to be valid, the file would still have to
> be loaded into geany, or the report should have been about some
> other program. This is not a security issue that concerns geany.
All this said, I think the issue should still be addressed, because
although it doesn't looks so security-related to me, it's not good to
choke on quotes or whatever. But that's not oss-security's problem :)
Regards,
Colomban
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