Bugtraq: Re: BUG in /bin/bash

[espel () clipper ens fr (Roger Espel Llima)]

> > VULNERABILITY:  A variable declaration error in "bash" allows the character
> >                 with value 255 decimal to be used as a command separator.
  That reminds me of a similar "little-known feature" on SunOS and
Solaris, where /bin/sh interprets '^' as a synonym for '|' :

$ sh -c 'echo blah ^ cat'
blah

  Again this could be exploited to fool CGI scripts (and ircII scripts
too) which execute shell commands with user-supplied data, after
checking for things like ';', '|' and '&'.

        -Roger
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