A security hole (/bin/sh IFS)

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Tue Mar 15 19:25:19 AEST 1988


Incidentally, note that the 4.3BSD /bin/sh does not import IFS from
the environment (like Doug Gwyn's BRL sh), except that it does this
*only* if you are root or if geteuid()!=getuid().  (Making it an exception
for root/setuid is, I think, bogus.)
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