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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: David Wells <bughunters@tenable.com>
Cc: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Zsh - Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 09:37:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7YSL2eLRWeXaZj09er-v4noxuALxAum5Zj4awLP=7mQRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAOKOsfSAR5aRBvEcyQKRzDCvOgRJdyRvVb9AXMq6d22RaUozQ@mail.gmail.com>

It would be helpful if you could explain how this would be exploited
by someone who is not already able to cause the zsh user to execute
some other arbitrary commands.  What's the point of crashing
somebody's shell if you can instead make it remove all their files or
email you their private ssh keys or something?

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-10 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-10 15:03 David Wells
2019-05-10 16:37 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2019-05-12 16:21   ` Stephane Chazelas
2019-05-13 16:29     ` David Wells
2019-05-13 22:02       ` Bart Schaefer
2019-05-14 18:10       ` Stephane Chazelas
2019-05-14 21:24         ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-05-14 21:38           ` Bart Schaefer
2019-05-14 21:39         ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-05-14 22:25           ` Bart Schaefer
2019-05-15 10:48             ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-05-31 12:05     ` [PATCH] [doc] [repost] warnings about restricted shell (Was: Zsh - Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities) Stephane Chazelas
2019-06-03  9:35       ` Peter Stephenson
2019-06-04  2:39       ` dana
2019-06-04  7:34         ` dana
2019-05-10 20:27 ` Zsh - Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities Bart Schaefer
2019-05-11  1:45   ` #7 (typeset -Tp) (was Re: Zsh - Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities) Oliver Kiddle
2019-05-13  9:01     ` Peter Stephenson
2019-05-13 21:11   ` PATCH: #6 negative job id (Re: " Oliver Kiddle
2019-05-13 21:44   ` Zsh - Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities Oliver Kiddle
2019-05-13 22:36   ` #3 typeset and braces (Re: Zsh - Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities) Oliver Kiddle
2019-05-14  0:13     ` Mikael Magnusson
2019-05-14  5:38       ` Bart Schaefer
2019-05-14 10:50     ` Peter Stephenson
2019-05-14 16:38   ` Zsh - Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities Peter Stephenson
2019-05-14 20:30   ` Oliver Kiddle
2019-05-15 16:50     ` Mikael Magnusson
2019-05-16 20:37     ` Peter Stephenson
2019-05-17 13:41       ` Mikael Magnusson
2019-05-17 13:51         ` Mikael Magnusson
2019-05-17 14:28           ` Mikael Magnusson
2019-05-18 10:31           ` Oliver Kiddle
2019-05-21 14:43             ` Oliver Kiddle
     [not found]               ` <CGME20190521154256eucas1p1f0816d2467abd8bf4a0c31058af2983a@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2019-05-21 15:42                 ` Peter Stephenson

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