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From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
Subject: Re: Deleting concatenation directories
Date: 26 Feb 1996 13:49:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <w8spwb2qmjn.fsf@eistla.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 24 Feb 1996 11:49:38 -0800

Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> I see some naked-looking calls to sh -c in gnus-uu.  Are precautions
> being taken against filenames like ``fred; rm -rf $HOME''?

Yup.  A file name like that would lead to the command

$ file "fred; rm -rf \$HOME"

which is harmless, I'd'a thunk.

-- 
  "Yes.  The journey through the human heart 
     would have to wait until some other time."


  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-02-26 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-02-23  2:35 September Gnus 0.41 is released Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-02-23  4:22 ` Steven L Baur
1996-02-23  8:17 ` Helmut Muelner
1996-02-23 17:22   ` Steven L Baur
1996-02-24 13:33     ` Deleting concatenation directories Stainless Steel Rat
1996-02-24 19:49       ` Steven L Baur
1996-02-25 19:04         ` Stainless Steel Rat
1996-02-26 12:49         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1996-02-26 12:49       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-02-24  7:44   ` September Gnus 0.41 is released Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-02-23 10:15 ` SCORING bug again (was: September Gnus 0.41 is released) boubaker

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