Re: [LUG] Nasty Squid bug

[Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx>]

Could be - someone maliciously editing the source during dev. Â

Only legit reason I could think of would be an unexpanded string, perhaps to clean the cache on a restart

rm -rf /$path_to_cache_dir

If that variable was empty and there were no checks, this might happen.

On 24 March 2015 at 09:23, Adrian Midgley <amidgley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Looks more like an attack does it not?

On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 at 08:55 Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202858

Bug 1202858 - restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive (rm -rf /*)

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