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

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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:12:21 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Andrew Farmer <andfarm@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Possibility to exploit bash "*" processing

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:36:32 PDT, Andrew Farmer said:

> Not true - the multibyte sequences in UTF-8 text consist entirely of
> high-bit characters (0xC2 - 0xF4 initial, 0x80 - 0xBF continuation). All
> characters below 0x80, including ASCII control characters, are always
> mapped directly to the corresponding codepoints.

Well, if you want to be pedantic about it. ;)

OK, they're "nonprintable characters" - which *still* should be filtered out if
you're filtering out control characters (if you're tossing a hex 0x17 because
it may give software indigestion, you probably should be tossing a 0x97 as
well).

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