From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 607 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2023 20:33:33 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 1 Aug 2023 20:33:33 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 513F94103D; Wed, 2 Aug 2023 06:33:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from clamta06.bpe.bigpond.com (clamta06.bpe.bigpond.com [203.42.22.22]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28E924103C for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2023 06:33:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: from claprdcmr03 by claprdomr06 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1qQw3M-0000n4-20 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2023 06:33:12 +1000 Received: from [110.141.193.233] (helo=aneurin.horsfall.org) by claprdcmr03 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1qQw3M-0005gV-1h for tuhs@tuhs.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2023 06:33:12 +1000 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 371KXABL010381 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2023 06:33:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 371KXAUO010378 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2023 06:33:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 06:33:09 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: <87zg3b3sc0.fsf@vuxu.org> Message-ID: References: <87zg3b3sc0.fsf@vuxu.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-tce-ares-id: e{43f509ac-593f-42c3-832d-43abaf468d7d}1 X-tce-spam-action: no action X-tce-spam-score: 0.0 X-Cm-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=d7kzizvE c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=64c96c08 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:117 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=UttIx32zK-AA:10 a=Z_4AP9Qp6Sq3REAMytQA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-Cm-Envelope: MS4xfKSa3p76p91wdzmcJjqqm8YjnywgbpF2JZvJN1CvmF9FXaVUGpoFQr8126huqjddZdsV8mWLy8cS2H/W9ZOBeRJWrLDqaSM1tWIlc7mNhMo0xM78J3ge mopaKDAVC4ScMiEBWsslr/9AEAtBaPtPfhqFb15PHR3yTOTu+9SG77iT Message-ID-Hash: NK4FINSI25J6LQDNOXYBMCFE6TT7H3O6 X-Message-ID-Hash: NK4FINSI25J6LQDNOXYBMCFE6TT7H3O6 X-MailFrom: dave@horsfall.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: shell escapes in utilities List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Not quite a Shell escape but possibly just as dangerous: EX/VI had/has the ability to embed EX commands within a file to be run when opened e.g. "se ts=4 sw=4" etc; no doubt EMACS has the same "feature". It would also recognise the EXINIT environment variable. -- Dave