Chet Ramey <[email protected]> writes:

> My favorite was the one where someone (not this reporter) reported a
> security bug in bash that essentially consisted of:
>
> 1. Change the permissions on the shell to setuid root
> 2. Imagine the chaos!
>
> They wanted a CVE, too. I don't think they got one.

Hahaha. Another funny one was the critical vulnerability in GNU
coreutils 'printf' using user input as a format string [1]. Maybe you
should check the bash builtin for that one. :)

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[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=80802

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