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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Safe way to eval variable declarations? Post 302910159 by Michael Stora on Tuesday 22nd of July 2014 08:44:15 PM
Old 07-22-2014
Safe way to eval variable declarations?

Is there a safe way to evaluate variable declarations within a script whether they come from a .conf file, user input, or stdin?

Example .conf file:
Code:
server=ftp.xxxx.com
port=21
user="$USER"                 # Hopefully allow this type of substitution
domain="$DOMAIN"
server="$(malicious code)"   #prevent this!

Mike
 

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NAME
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formmailtest <url> [<spoof recipient>] DESCRIPTION
formmailtest attempts to connect to the specified host and uses several different to attempt to relay through the FormMail script located at <url>. It can do more tests if the normal recipient for that FormMail script is provided as <spoof recipient>, but it can quite often relay without. Tests are done with both GET and POST to attempt to bypass any firewall/httpd.conf/.htaccess pseudo-security. In the tests described below, DOMAIN is the section of <spoof recipient> after the @ sign, USER is the section before, and DASHDOMAIN is DOMAIN after all periods have been replaced by dashes. Tests: recipient=listme@dsbl.org recipient=dsbl.org!listme realname=&email= Cc: listme@dsbl.org&recipient=() realname=) Cc: listme@dsbl.org (&recipient=() recipient=listme%dsbl.org@DOMAIN recipient=dsbl.org!listme@DOMAIN recipient=listme@dsbl.org(DOMAIN recipient=<listme@dsbl.org>DOMAIN realname=&email=0c: listme@dsbl.org&recipient=DOMAIN realname=)0c: listme@dsbl.org (&email=&recipient=DOMAIN recipient=listme@dsbl.org(USER@DASHDOMAIN recipient=<listme@dsbl.org>USER@DASHDOMAIN AUTHOR
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