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Re: [Nmh-workers] proposed patch for shell metacharacter failure in nmh-


From: Ken Hornstein
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] proposed patch for shell metacharacter failure in nmh-1.7
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:11:55 -0500

>> I really think to be safe we should simply
>> replace any shell metacharacters for those things,
>
>I'm not sure that could be done completely safely.  See below about not
>using /bin/sh -c.

Our official list of shell metacharacters in argsplit() is:

#define METACHARS       "$&*(){}[]'\";\\|?<>~`\n"

It seems like replacing all of those for any MIME parameter we encounter
would make sense, and would be safe?

--Ken



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