Re: Process substitution can leak CTLESC (0x01) in output

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/16/17 3:36 PM, David Simmons wrote:
> [ Re-sending... it doesn't look like this went through the first time. ]
> 
> Bash uses 0x01 (CTLESC) and 0x7F (CTLNUL) bytes within command word strings
> that are passed around internally.  If either of these bytes appear in the
> parser input, they are escaped with an extra 0x01 (CTLESC), but such
> escaping is reverted before final use.
> 
> When I use ANSI-C quoting to represent these bytes in a process
> substitution context, they appear to be CTLESC-encoded twice in their
> journey through bash.  For example, 7F becomes 01 7F which becomes 01 01 01
> 7F, then decoded once as 01 7F before final use.  This leads to spurious
> 0x01 bytes.

Thanks for the report. This exists as far back as bash-2.05b, and probably
dates from the initial process substitution implementation in the early
1990s.

It will be fixed in the next release of bash.

Chet
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