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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/os/exec/exec.go b/src/os/exec/exec.go
index 18f265ee4e..46b09b9c0c 100644
--- a/src/os/exec/exec.go
+++ b/src/os/exec/exec.go
@@ -1208,15 +1208,16 @@ func (c *Cmd) Environ() []string {
// dedupEnv returns a copy of env with any duplicates removed, in favor of
// later values.
// Items not of the normal environment "key=value" form are preserved unchanged.
-// Items containing NUL characters are removed, and an error is returned along with
-// the remaining values.
+// Except on Plan 9, items containing NUL characters are removed, and
+// an error is returned along with the remaining values.
func dedupEnv(env []string) ([]string, error) {
- return dedupEnvCase(runtime.GOOS == "windows", env)
+ return dedupEnvCase(runtime.GOOS == "windows", runtime.GOOS == "plan9", env)
}
// dedupEnvCase is dedupEnv with a case option for testing.
// If caseInsensitive is true, the case of keys is ignored.
-func dedupEnvCase(caseInsensitive bool, env []string) ([]string, error) {
+// If nulOK is false, items containing NUL characters are allowed.
+func dedupEnvCase(caseInsensitive, nulOK bool, env []string) ([]string, error) {
// Construct the output in reverse order, to preserve the
// last occurrence of each key.
var err error
@@ -1225,10 +1226,13 @@ func dedupEnvCase(caseInsensitive bool, env []string) ([]string, error) {
for n := len(env); n > 0; n-- {
kv := env[n-1]
- if strings.IndexByte(kv, 0) != -1 {
+ // Reject NUL in environment variables to prevent security issues (#56284);
+ // except on Plan 9, which uses NUL as os.PathListSeparator (#56544).
+ if !nulOK && strings.IndexByte(kv, 0) != -1 {
err = errors.New("exec: environment variable contains NUL")
continue
}
+
i := strings.Index(kv, "=")
if i == 0 {
// We observe in practice keys with a single leading "=" on Windows.