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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Cc: David Wells <bughunters@tenable.com>,
	"zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Zsh - Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 14:38:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7Z2eteiuZaL_s56-z4d8NukX0FBm1KrdH_TOTx4=_EzXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b921306-f67c-4971-b9ea-8657c573c5f1@www.fastmail.com>

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 2:25 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>
> Stephane Chazelas wrote on Tue, 14 May 2019 18:11 +00:00:
> > IMO, from a security standpoint, it's not very useful to fuzz
> > "code" input provided to zsh, as anyway any "code" allows zsh to
> > run any arbitrary command (except for the restricted mode). In
> > other words, the "code" is generally not the attacker supplied
> > data.
>
> Sounds right.  There might be some corner case here

The other interesting case would be one where the zsh code enabled
privilege escalation, i.e., where the coder is the attacker and the
shell is the vector to a different security issue.  A zsh script to
exploit ZombieLoad, for example.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-14 21:39 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
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 [this message]
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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