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Message-ID: <20160503235110.GD1250@sentinelchicken.org>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:51:10 -0700
From: Tim <tim-security@...tinelchicken.org>
To: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@...onical.com>, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714
> Or, replace the strings with arrays and use execve() instead of system().
^^^
That.
system() should be taken out into the street and shot. There's just
no good reason for a respectable programmer to use it.
Not saying that's the *only* thing they would need to do, but we need
to encourage development platforms, in general, to stop offering up
awful interfaces like this. Heck, Node.js offers a child_process.exec()
call that isn't exec at all. It is (approximately) system(). Surely
that won't lead to any problems...
tim
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