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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] completion: add tests for invalid variable name among completion words
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:40:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121117234059.GD3815@elie.Belkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353150353-29874-5-git-send-email-szeder@ira.uka.de>

SZEDER Gábor wrote:

>                                                      The breakage can
> be simply bogus possible completion words, but it can also be a
> failure:
>
>   $ git branch '${foo.bar}'
>   $ git checkout <TAB>
>   bash: ${foo.bar}: bad substitution

Or arbitrary code execution:

	$ git branch '$(>kilroy-was-here)'
	$ git checkout <TAB>
	$ ls -l kilroy-was-here
	-rw-rw-r-- 1 jrn jrn 0 nov 17 15:40 kilroy-was-here

The final version of this patch should go to maint.  Thanks for
catching it.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-17 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-17 11:05 [PATCH 0/7] completion: fix expansion issues with compgen SZEDER Gábor
2012-11-17 11:05 ` [PATCH 1/7] completion: make the 'basic' test more tester-friendly SZEDER Gábor
2012-11-17 23:00   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-18  9:38     ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-18  9:39   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-17 11:05 ` [PATCH 2/7] completion: fix args of run_completion() test helper SZEDER Gábor
2012-11-17 23:02   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-18  8:48   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-17 11:05 ` [PATCH 3/7] completion: add tests for the __gitcomp_nl() completion helper function SZEDER Gábor
2012-11-17 23:31   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-18  8:53   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-17 11:05 ` [PATCH 4/7] completion: add tests for invalid variable name among completion words SZEDER Gábor
2012-11-17 23:40   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-11-18  8:34     ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-18  8:34   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-17 11:05 ` [PATCH 5/7] completion: fix expansion issues in __gitcomp_nl() SZEDER Gábor
2012-11-17 11:50   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-17 14:14     ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-11-17 19:08       ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-17 19:28         ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-18  0:55           ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-18  0:58   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-17 11:05 ` [PATCH 6/7] completion: fix expansion issue in __gitcomp() SZEDER Gábor
2012-11-17 11:39   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-17 14:09     ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-11-17 11:05 ` [PATCH 7/7] completion: remove the now unused __gitcomp_1() internal helper function SZEDER Gábor

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