full-disclosure - Re: Gaim festival plugin exploit

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Message-ID: <86d6cny01v.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
From: merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Gaim festival plugin exploit

>>>>> "Dale" == Dale Harris <rodmur@...be.org> writes:

Dale> So let me guess  open FEST "|..." uses popen(), right?

No, it doesn't.  It uses its own code, which looks at the string
to see if there are shell constructs, and if not, avoids the
shell by parsing whitespace and args on its own.

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