On 12/15/15 12:33 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 2015-12-15 09:01:05 -0500, Chet Ramey:
>> On 12/14/15 6:30 PM, up201407...@alunos.dcc.fc.up.pt wrote:
>>> Quoting "Stephane Chazelas" <stephane.chaze...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> I understand what you're saying.
>>> As much as we would like, there's no way of stopping all attack vectors by
>>> only hardening bash, not only that, but also taking away its useful
>>> features.
>>> Though I still believe PS4 shouldn't be imported from the environment.
>>
>> Maybe if running with uid 0.
> [...]
>
> FWIW, my use case for SHELLOPTS=xtrace is often for uid 0:
Which should not be affected by what we're talking about, which is not
importing PS4 from the environment when uid == 0.
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