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| author | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2020-05-04 12:23:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2020-05-04 12:48:56 +0200 |
| commit | 75f59b16312523ab3deb995c48e8c8ae07586c23 (patch) | |
| tree | d73f90337db9273022099add691bb734390a96e3 /apt-pkg/cacheset.cc | |
| parent | 6e6a9331e6d27d371844ec98775619328526f33d (diff) | |
Reinstate * wildcards
Reinstate * wildcards as they are safe to use, but do not allow any
other special characters such as ? or [].
Notably, ? would overlap with patterns, and [] might overlap with
future pattern extensions (alternative bracketing style), it's also
hard to explain.
Closes: #953531
LP: #1872200
Diffstat (limited to 'apt-pkg/cacheset.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | apt-pkg/cacheset.cc | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/cacheset.cc b/apt-pkg/cacheset.cc index 288180f16..3967ba980 100644 --- a/apt-pkg/cacheset.cc +++ b/apt-pkg/cacheset.cc @@ -189,8 +189,11 @@ bool CacheSetHelper::PackageFromFnmatch(PackageContainerInterface * const pci, pkgCacheFile &Cache, std::string pattern) { static const char * const isfnmatch = ".?*[]!"; - if (_config->FindB("APT::Cmd::Pattern-Only", false)) - return false; + // Whitelist approach: Anything not in here is not a valid pattern + static const char *const isfnmatch_strict = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789+-.:*"; + + if (_config->FindB("APT::Cmd::Pattern-Only", false) && pattern.find_first_not_of(isfnmatch_strict) != std::string::npos) + return false; if (pattern.find_first_of(isfnmatch) == std::string::npos) return false; |