From 471a7be7a042e95e440f5de969c9765214ae8d6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:14:32 +0200 Subject: Check for illegal character '=' in environment variable names. Make sure the string passed as variable name does not contain a '=' character. This not only prevents the common error or typing "setenv foo=bar" instead of "setenv foo bar", but (more importantly) also closes a backdoor which allowed to delete write-protected environment variables, for example by using "setenv ethaddr=". --- common/cmd_nvedit.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'common/cmd_nvedit.c') diff --git a/common/cmd_nvedit.c b/common/cmd_nvedit.c index 6257fbd23..d3f50f87f 100644 --- a/common/cmd_nvedit.c +++ b/common/cmd_nvedit.c @@ -167,6 +167,11 @@ int _do_setenv (int flag, int argc, char *argv[]) name = argv[1]; + if (strchr(name, '=')) { + printf ("## Error: illegal character '=' in variable name \"%s\"\n", name); + return 1; + } + /* * search if variable with this name already exists */ -- cgit v1.2.3