[Bug localedata/11904] New: locale command does not quote (invalid) locale strings

[Bug localedata/11904] New: locale command does not quote (invalid) locale strings

[truedfx at gentoo dot org]

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

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           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


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[Bug localedata/11904] locale command does not quote (invalid) locale strings

[drepper at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2010-08-12 16:06 -------
Fixed in git.

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED


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[Bug localedata/11904] locale command does not quote (invalid) locale strings

[fweimer at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11904

Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> changed:

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