Subject: Re: bug#19998: GREP_OPTIONS alternative?

From: Christian Kujau <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:13:19 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 at 19:11, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > An "attacker" can set $PATH to /tmp and do stuff too.
> 
> Sure, but that's well-known and standardized and it's easy (and expected) for
> administrative applications to sanitize PATH.  The problem comes when we have

s/PATH/TMPDIR/ - or LD_PRELOAD or LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc. All "well known" 
and "potentially dangerous" if not cared for.

I relalize of course  that you won't change your mind about GREP_OPTIONS, 
but I'm a bit surpised that such a visible change in userspace was done 
w/o any consideration of the users of said feature. Oh well...

Christian.
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