From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: lux <lx@shellcodes.org>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>,
66390@debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#66390: `man' allows to inject arbitrary shell code
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:00:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmk4y0H3pEyErqeKBrc8Evb8qMmAK-Vi1o37Ab0T8h7GHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tencent_B89C8F336F35EB3562777DF226E178C19708@qq.com>
lux <lx@shellcodes.org> writes:
> On Tue, 2023-10-10 at 18:21 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> On Okt 10 2023, lux wrote:
>>
>> > + ;; see Bug#66390
>> > + (mapconcat 'identity
>> > + (mapcar #'shell-quote-argument
>> > + (split-string ref " "))
>>
>> You need to split on arbitrary sequences of whitespace to not introduce
>> spurious empty arguments.
>>
>
> Thanks, I've modified it to (split-string ref "\\s-+").
I lost track of this discussion a little bit, but I think we should
try to have this fixed in Emacs 29.2.
Is the below patch acceptable?
> From faa49ba78a203d47740280e5c6fd0e075628b507 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Xi Lu <lx@shellcodes.org>
> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:20:05 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] Fix man.el code injection vulnerability.
>
> * lisp/man.el (Man-translate-references): Fix code injection.
> * test/lisp/man-tests.el (man-tests-Man-translate-references): New.
> ---
> lisp/man.el | 6 +++++-
> test/lisp/man-tests.el | 12 ++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el
> index 506d6060269..a95435c7ea0 100644
> --- a/lisp/man.el
> +++ b/lisp/man.el
> @@ -692,7 +692,11 @@ Man-translate-references
> (setq name (match-string 2 ref)
> section (match-string 1 ref))))
> (if (string= name "")
> - ref ; Return the reference as is
> + ;; see Bug#66390
> + (mapconcat 'identity
> + (mapcar #'shell-quote-argument
> + (split-string ref "\\s-+"))
> + " ") ; Return the reference as is
> (if Man-downcase-section-letters-flag
> (setq section (downcase section)))
> (while slist
> diff --git a/test/lisp/man-tests.el b/test/lisp/man-tests.el
> index e3657d7df8a..1c6dcb63a5c 100644
> --- a/test/lisp/man-tests.el
> +++ b/test/lisp/man-tests.el
> @@ -161,6 +161,18 @@ man-bgproc-filter-buttonize-includes
> (let ((button (button-at (match-beginning 0))))
> (should (and button (eq 'Man-xref-header-file (button-type button))))))))))
>
> +(ert-deftest man-tests-Man-translate-references ()
> + (should (equal (Man-translate-references "basename")
> + "basename"))
> + (should (equal (Man-translate-references "basename(3)")
> + "3 basename"))
> + (should (equal (Man-translate-references "basename(3v)")
> + "3v basename"))
> + (should (equal (Man-translate-references ";id")
> + "\\;id"))
> + (should (equal (Man-translate-references "-k basename")
> + "-k basename")))
> +
> (provide 'man-tests)
>
> ;;; man-tests.el ends here
> --
> 2.42.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-20 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-07 12:47 bug#66390: `man' allows to inject arbitrary shell code Maxim Nikulin
2023-10-07 13:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-07 14:12 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-07 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-07 14:29 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-07 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-07 15:37 ` Michael Albinus
2023-10-07 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-07 16:55 ` Michael Albinus
2023-10-07 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-07 17:45 ` Michael Albinus
2023-10-07 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-08 3:37 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-08 5:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-09 15:12 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-09 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-09 16:30 ` lux
2023-10-09 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-09 17:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-09 17:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-10-10 2:47 ` lux
2023-10-10 7:43 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-10 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-10 12:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-10 11:09 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-10 10:54 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-10 14:30 ` lux
2023-10-10 16:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-10-11 3:08 ` lux
2023-10-11 10:46 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-20 21:00 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2023-10-21 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 7:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-10-21 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 9:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-10 21:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-11 12:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-01-11 14:34 ` Max Nikulin
2024-01-11 15:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-01-11 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 15:37 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-09 2:36 ` Richard Stallman
2023-10-09 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-10 11:56 ` Richard Stallman
2023-10-11 10:56 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-08 3:42 ` Maxim Nikulin
2023-10-08 5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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