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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Length of argument list
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:20:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150611132036.GA8342@chaz.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150611112716.7bdbf38e@hogwart.bsdlocal.net>

2015-06-11 11:27:16 +0200, Manfred Lotz:
[...]
> I know but when dealing with files I never take into account
> that file names contain newlines. IMHO, only crazy people create file
> names which contain newlines.
[...]

Crazy, careless (copy-paste in a terminal) or malicious.

There are lots of security vulnerabilties around that are caused
by code that assumes file names cannot contain newline
characters.

-- 
Stephane


      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-11 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-10 18:48 Manfred Lotz
2015-06-10 20:09 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-06-11  9:23   ` Manfred Lotz
2015-06-10 21:46 ` Clint Hepner
2015-06-11  9:27   ` Manfred Lotz
2015-06-11 13:20     ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]

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