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[Bug localedata/11904] New: locale command does not quote (invalid) locale strings
- From: "truedfx at gentoo dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 11 Aug 2010 20:07:07 -0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/11904] New: locale command does not quote (invalid) locale strings
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
eval "`locale`" is supposed to be safe. From
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/locale.html>: "The
<value> and <implied value> shown above shall be properly quoted for possible
later reentry to the shell." glibc's locale command does not do this, and as a
result, if a script does eval "`locale`", it misbehaves badly when someone
figures out to set LANG to ' rm -rf /'.
$ LANG=' rm -rf /' locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG= rm -rf /
LC_CTYPE=" rm -rf /"
LC_NUMERIC=" rm -rf /"
LC_TIME=" rm -rf /"
LC_COLLATE=" rm -rf /"
LC_MONETARY=" rm -rf /"
LC_MESSAGES=" rm -rf /"
LC_PAPER=" rm -rf /"
LC_NAME=" rm -rf /"
LC_ADDRESS=" rm -rf /"
LC_TELEPHONE=" rm -rf /"
LC_MEASUREMENT=" rm -rf /"
LC_IDENTIFICATION=" rm -rf /"
LC_ALL=
$ echo $?
0
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Summary: locale command does not quote (invalid) locale strings
Product: glibc
Version: 2.11
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: localedata
AssignedTo: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
ReportedBy: truedfx at gentoo dot org
CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11904
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