Re: Possibility to exploit bash "*" processing

[GloW - XD <doomxd () gmail com>]

Probably because anybody who's used the various Bourne-style shells for a
while
considers it a feature, not a bug

This seems to be true.
I was able to write a file to root, using a simple cat > cmd similar, in
BSD4.11,but when reporting it, Colin Percival seemed to think it more
amusing... they did although patch it being able to write root, as i was
able to write over the passwd file and add myself to it :P
this was a bug, but not a big one according to the lists at the time,
although when you can overwrite root, they might ask you to send them a
private post to bugs@kernel ;P lol.
have fun... thats not much tho... write a file now to another dir, then its
a bug.... and cat maybe could still, it was only ever patched on bsd...
problem was in gentoo tho also ;)
later and, hope you have fun working with the secteams if you do find a
deeper bug ;p look on BSD mailing lists for a cat bug...it is few years ago
now but it is there.. i still have the links somewhere but dont have time to
search, just lookup the bsd security lists if you need more infos about it
or, i could send you the posts from colin when i am in the office and have
more time.
cheers
xd

oops, sorry i cc'd valdis, sorry this was aimed at author more,... dont have
time to correct things i gotta run



On 21 September 2011 04:31, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:29:11 +0300, Kirils Solovjovs said:
> > Brought this up a year ago. Seems that no attention has been given to
> > this so far.
>
> Probably because anybody who's used the various Bourne-style shells for a
> while
> considers it a feature, not a bug.  This is a case where the Principle of
> Least
> Surprise comes up with different answers for novice users and for experts:
> "What? A * can expand into an unintended command argument?" "Yeah, what
> *else*
> would it do - the shell is just globbing, it doesn't know for sure what the
> command will do with the parameter".
>
> Multics had an alternate solution for this issue - when you issued a
> command,
> it would get invoked right then and there and take over terminal input and
> allow guided completions knowing what the command syntax was (think "love
> child
> of getopt and readline" ;) Of course, this doesn't play well with pipes,
> especially if the pipe further down the line has a redirection that fails.
>
> > One solution would be to modify "*" processing so that it ignores
> > filenames that start "-" similarly as it ignores filenames that start
> > with "."'
>
> No, you don't want to do that.  You want to provide an *optional*
> flag, similar to the shopt settings for 'dotglob', 'extglob', 'failglob',
> 'globstar',
> 'nocaseglob', and 'nullglob'.
>
> Having said that, a 'shopt dashglob' shouldn't be too hard to implement,
> as you can do 98% of it based on the already-existing 'dotglob' code, and
> that's probably the way to address the issue.
>
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