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Re: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap

From Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.security
Subject Re: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap
Date 2018-12-28 15:30 +0100
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Hi Tomas,

On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:53:00PM +0000, Tomas Bortoli wrote:
> 
> By shell escaping I meant to escape all the special shell characters
> within the input. That'd probably need additional dependencies or a neat
> sanitizer function.
> 
> But I was wrong, it's unnecessary as there's no shell interpreter there
> but it's just using `execv` to get rsh/ssh running.
> 
> I agree that preventing the injection of spaces will prevent the
> injection of additional parameters and therefore the execution of
> unexpected commands.
> 
Thanks for the feedback and confirmation.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez

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RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-23 04:30 +0100
  Re: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-24 22:50 +0100
    Re: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@hotmail.it> - 2018-12-26 09:50 +0100
  Re: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@hotmail.it> - 2018-12-25 12:30 +0100
    Re: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-28 05:30 +0100
      Re: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-28 15:30 +0100
      Re: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@hotmail.it> - 2018-12-28 19:30 +0100
  Re: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com> - 2018-12-28 21:50 +0100
  Re: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-29 16:30 +0100
    RE: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap COSTEY Anthony <a.costey@caenlamer.fr> - 2018-12-29 17:10 +0100
    Re: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2018-12-30 09:40 +0100
      Bug#914632: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debian.org> - 2019-02-24 20:40 +0100

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