full-disclosure - Re: Possibility to exploit bash "*" processing

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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:56:22 +0100
From: Jacqui Caren <jacqui.caren@...world.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Possibility to exploit bash "*" processing

On 21/09/2011 10:39, Cédric Jeanneret wrote:
> Consider using:
> rm ./*

I dont see why someone would know how to use '--' for touch and not for rm...

[jacqui@...ter test]$ touch -- -f -r
[jacqui@...ter test]$ rm *
[jacqui@...ter test]$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jacqui jacqui 0 Sep 21 12:53 -f
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jacqui jacqui 0 Sep 21 12:53 -r
[jacqui@...ter test]$ rm -- *
[jacqui@...ter test]$ ls -l
total 0
[jacqui@...ter test]$

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