[debian-lan-devel] Bug#793624: debian-lan-config: lots of unquoted shell code

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Sat Jul 25 18:17:43 UTC 2015


Package: debian-lan-config
Severity: normal

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Hi,

Scanning the source package with shellcheck reveals a bunch of unquoted
variables, possibly harmless but potentially leading to "surprises" -
arguably not a security flaw but scary anyway to encourage a sysadmin to
execute such complex collection of code as root that can blow up if e.g.
a server name contains space.

I dearly recommend to scan with shellcheck, and consider add it as a
test during package build to catch also future typos.


 - Jonas

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