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From: "truedfx at gentoo dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org> To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com Subject: [Bug localedata/11904] New: locale command does not quote (invalid) locale strings Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:07:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20100811200707.11904.truedfx@gentoo.org> (raw) eval "`locale`" is supposed to be safe. From <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/locale.html>: "The <value> and <implied value> shown above shall be properly quoted for possible later reentry to the shell." glibc's locale command does not do this, and as a result, if a script does eval "`locale`", it misbehaves badly when someone figures out to set LANG to ' rm -rf /'. $ LANG=' rm -rf /' locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANG= rm -rf / LC_CTYPE=" rm -rf /" LC_NUMERIC=" rm -rf /" LC_TIME=" rm -rf /" LC_COLLATE=" rm -rf /" LC_MONETARY=" rm -rf /" LC_MESSAGES=" rm -rf /" LC_PAPER=" rm -rf /" LC_NAME=" rm -rf /" LC_ADDRESS=" rm -rf /" LC_TELEPHONE=" rm -rf /" LC_MEASUREMENT=" rm -rf /" LC_IDENTIFICATION=" rm -rf /" LC_ALL= $ echo $? 0 -- Summary: locale command does not quote (invalid) locale strings Product: glibc Version: 2.11 Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: localedata AssignedTo: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com ReportedBy: truedfx at gentoo dot org CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11904 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
next reply other threads:[~2010-08-11 20:07 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2010-08-11 20:07 truedfx at gentoo dot org [this message] 2010-08-12 16:06 ` [Bug localedata/11904] " drepper at redhat dot com
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