ash: [VAR] Sanitise environment variable names on entry
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:35:18 +0800
[VAR] Sanitise environment variable names on entry
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:48:48AM +0000, harald@redhat.com wrote:
> "export -p" prints all environment variables, without checking if the
> environment variable is a valid dash variable name.
>
> IMHO, the only valid usecase for "export -p" is to eval the output.
>
> $ eval $(export -p); echo OK
> OK
>
> Without this patch the following test does error out with:
>
> test.py:
> import os
> os.environ["test-test"]="test"
> os.environ["test_test"]="test"
> os.execv("./dash", [ './dash', '-c', 'eval $(export -p); echo OK' ])
>
> $ python test.py
> ./dash: 1: export: test-test: bad variable name
>
> Of course the results can be more evil, if the environment variable
> name is crafted, that it injects valid shell code.
This patch fixes the issue by sanitising all environment variable names
upon entry into the shell.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>