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Martijn Dekker 593a5a8b7f Patch vulnerability CVE-2019-14868
Certain environment variables were interpreted as arithmetic
expressions on startup, leading to code injection.

Ref.:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757324
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(cherry picked from commit ee6b001d0611ad2e00b6da2c2b42051995c0a678)
2020-06-12 01:45:14 +02:00

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This documents significant changes in the 93u+m branch of AT&T ksh93.
For full details, see the git log at:
https://github.com/modernish/ksh
Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
2020-05-21:
- Fix truncating of files with the combined redirections '<>;file' and
'<#pattern'. The bug was caused by out-of-sync streams.
Details and discussion: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/61
- Patched code injection vulerability CVE-2019-14868. As a result, you can
no longer use expressions in imported numeric environment variables; only
integer literals are allowed.
2020-05-20:
- Fix BUG_ISSETLOOP. Expansions like ${var+set} remained static when used
within a 'for', 'while' or 'until' loop; the expansions din't change along
with the state of the variable, so they could not be used to check whether a
variable is set within a loop if the state of that variable changed in the
course of the loop.
- Fix BUG_IFSISSET. ${IFS+s} always yielded 's', and [[ -v IFS ]] always
yielded true, even if IFS is unset. This applied to IFS only.
2020-05-19:
- Fix 'command -p'. The -p option causes the operating system's standard
utilities path (as output by 'getconf PATH') to be searched instead of $PATH.
Before this fix, this was broken on non-interactive shells as the internal
variable holding the default PATH value was not correctly initialised.
2020-05-16:
- Fix 'test -t 1', '[ -t 1 ]', '[[ -t 1 ]]' in command substitutions.
Standard output (file descriptor 1) tested as being on a terminal within a
command substitution, which makes no sense as the command substitution is
supposed to be catching standard output.
v=$(echo begincomsub
[ -t 1 ] && echo oops
echo endcomsub)
echo "$v"
This now does not output "oops".
2020-05-14:
- Fix syncing history when print -s -f is used. For example, the
following now correctly adds a 'cd' command to the history:
print -s -f 'cd -- %q\n' "$PWD"
Ref.: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/425
https://github.com/att/ast/pull/442
- Fix BUG_PUTIOERR: Output builtins now correctly detect and report
input/output errors. This allows scripts to check for a nonzero exit
status on the 'print', 'printf' and 'echo' builtins and prevent possible
infinite loops if SIGPIPE is ignored.
- Add a convenient bin/run_ksh_tests script to the source tree that
sets up the necessary environment and runs the ksh regression tests.
2020-05-13:
- Fix BUG_CASELIT: an undocumented 'case' pattern matching misbehaviour that
goes back to the original Bourne shell, but wasn't discovered until 2018.
If a pattern doesn't match as a pattern, it was tried again as a literal
string. This broke common validation use cases, e.g.:
n='[0-9]'
case $n in
( [0-9] ) echo "$n is a number" ;;
esac
would output "[0-9] is a number" as the literal string fallback matches the
pattern. As this misbehaviour was never documented anywhere (not for Bourne,
ksh88, or ksh93), and it was never replicated in other shells (not even in
ksh88 clones pdksh and mksh), it is unlikely any scripts rely on it.
Of course, a literal string fallback, should it be needed, is trivial to
implement correctly without this breakage:
case $n in
( [0-9] | "[0-9]") echo "$n is a number or the number pattern" ;;
esac
Ref.: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/476
- Fix BUG_REDIRIO: ksh used to redirect standard output by default when no
file descriptor was specified with the rarely used '<>' reading/writing
redirection operator. It now redirects standard input by default, as POSIX
specifies and as all other POSIX shells do. To redirect standard output
for reading and writing, you now need '1<>'.
Ref.: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/75
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_07_07