Bug 741180

Summary: pki-silent does not properly escape command-line arguments
Product: [Retired] Dogtag Certificate System Reporter: Jan Cholasta <jcholast>
Component: Installation WizardAssignee: Ade Lee <alee>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 9.0CC: mharmsen
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Description Jan Cholasta 2011-09-26 07:25:39 UTC
Description of problem:
When you run pkisilent like this:

    pkisilent ... -some_option "ugly ' value" ...

the resulting java invocation will be:

    java ... -some_option ugly ' value ...

instead of:

    java ... -some_option "ugly ' value" ...

which is obviously very wrong.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pki-silent-9.0.14-1.20110922T0903z.fc15.noarch
pki-ca-9.0.14-1.20110922T0903z.fc15.noarch

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run pkisilent and use a space, quote or any other shell special character in any of its arguments.

Actual results:
pkisilent does not escape the command-line arguments, strange errors occur.

Expected results:
pkisilent should escape all the command-line arguments before using them in shell.

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