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Critical Rust flaw enables Windows command injection attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 5 months ago by 0x0@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 55 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Seems a bit clickbaity to me. It's a flaw in Windows/cmd.exe, not Rust. Rust is just called out because it tries to emulated proper argument passing on Windows (and didn't get it perfectly right). All languages are affected by this but most of them just throw their hands in the air and say "you're on your own":

  • Erlang (documentation update)
  • Go (documentation update)
  • Haskell (patch available)
  • Java (won’t fix)
  • Node.js (patch will be available)
  • PHP (patch will be available)
  • Python (documentation update)
  • Ruby (documentation update)

It's also extremely unlikely that you'd be running a bat script with untrusted arguments on Windows.

[–] porgamrer@programming.dev 28 points 5 months ago

I mean, let's be real, Rust is really called out because it causes high drama between C devs and Rust advocates, which drives engagement.

It's probably all kicking off in about 10 different comment sections right now

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

It's also extremely unlikely that you'd be running a bat script with untrusted arguments on Windows.

It happens in yt-dl, which is where this was first reported https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-hjq6-52gw-2g7p