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RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 8 months ago

The curious case of shell commands, or how "this bug is required by POSIX"

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The curious case of shell commands, or how "this bug is required by POSIX"

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RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 8 months ago
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About the fatal perils and traps of many modern tools that handle "shell commands" as passed through `system(3)` or `sh -c`. Or, how by the end of 2020, we still haven't given up on shell's equivalent "SQL building", or how shell's equivalent "SQL injection" still thrives in our engineering world... Plus a `glibc` bug, then a Linux man pages bug, then a POSIX specification bug...

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