From: www-data Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:02:51 +0000 (+0000) Subject: web commit from 66.118.98.137: X-Git-Tag: 1.0~473 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dce2ce40e828e46613926025768f38e47993c61e;p=ikiwiki.git web commit from 66.118.98.137: --- diff --git a/doc/security.mdwn b/doc/security.mdwn index a3e387218..e25cc9ce9 100644 --- a/doc/security.mdwn +++ b/doc/security.mdwn @@ -92,3 +92,7 @@ to the html pages, etc. If the wrapper script is made suid, then any bugs in this wrapper would be security holes. The wrapper is written as securely as I know how, is based on code that has a history of security use long before ikiwiki, and there's been no problem yet. + +## shell exploits + +ikiwiki does not expose untrusted data to the shell. In fact it doesn't use system() at all, and the only use of backticks is on data supplied by the wiki admin. And it runs with taint checks on of course.. \ No newline at end of file