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From: reaktorat_private
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 21:46:59 PST

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    Hello All,
    
    I can confirm that the ls strings dos' slackware 8.0. Causes shell process of that user (user or root) to chew up the cpu until the shell terminates on sig 11.
    
    Works on any shell the user is using, csh, ksh, bash
    
    Tested on:
    Linux 2.2.19 #93 Thu Jun 21 01:09:03 PDT 2001 i586 unknown
    SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
    
    Not Vuln:
    OpenBSD 3.0 GENERIC#94 i386
    
    Needs more investigation.
    
    Gilbert
    
    
    At 03:40 PM 3/29/2002, martin f krafft wrote:
    >   ls */../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*
    
    ...
    
    >   DenyFilter \*.*/
    
    Just as a quick question, why not deny the string "/../" (you may have to
    deny the regex "/\.\./", depending how the filter in question works)?
    
    As far as I can tell, it's the ability to embed "/../" into a path that is
    at the root of this, far more than the ability to embed wildcards.  I can't
    think of a situation in which "/../" should appear in a user-supplied path,
    except after a string of repeated "../"s.
    
    The workaround suggested by Mr Krafft would disable some useful
    functionality - one large user of mine, for instance, was keen to have my
    own software evaluate wildcards in the body of the path, which Mr Krafft's
    workaround disables completely.  They even paid for the privilege (not
    enough, but they paid ;-))
    
    So, let's see, a regex that would deny "/../", except as part of a string
    of such...
    
    One bash would be "[^/.].*/\.\./" - matching "/../" if it's after any
    character other than '/' or '.'.  Doubtless someone can come up with
    something better.
    
    Alun.
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