From: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Inheriting IFS from environment
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:06:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56840F22.6040302@inlv.org> (raw)
Unlike bash, *ksh and zsh, dash allows inheriting IFS from the environment:
$ IFS=bla dash -c "x='hela hola'; echo \$x"
he ho
This seems a bit dodgy from a security point of view. For instance, most
scripts don't bother to quote their variables in test commands such as [
$var -eq 0 ], making it possible to influence the program flow by
manipulating IFS from the outside.
- M.
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2015-12-30 17:06 Martijn Dekker [this message]
2016-01-03 18:46 ` Inheriting IFS from environment Gioele Barabucci
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