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From: Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing Windows and DOS command line argument quoting
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:24:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB5BC48.6060605@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DB53599.8040703@gmail.com>

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On 4/25/11 1:49 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>>  . Please install this only on the trunk.  The emacs-23 branch should
>>    not be destabilized by such experiments at this time.
> 
> Fair enough.

I'd just like to note that it'd be a good idea to eventually backport
this fix to Emacs 23: it's a security issue.  The current
shell-quote-argument doesn't, so (shell-command (format "cmd %s"
(shell-quote-argument untrusted-input))) can run an arbitrary command.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-25 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-25  2:09 Fixing Windows and DOS command line argument quoting Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25  6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25  8:49   ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25  8:58     ` Jason Rumney
2011-04-25  9:15       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25  9:22       ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25 17:56         ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25 18:47           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 10:44             ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-26 17:50               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25  9:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 18:24     ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2011-04-25 18:48       ` Eli Zaretskii
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2011-04-27  0:58 Ben Key
2011-04-27  1:25 ` Daniel Colascione

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