Add a counterexample to 'do it in Ruby'

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Jacob Vosmaer 2014-10-02 18:27:18 +02:00
parent 71fce0b2f8
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@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ FileUtils.mkdir_p "tmp/special/directory"
contents = `cat #{filename}`
# Correct
contents = File.read(filename)
# Sometimes a shell command is just the best solution. The example below has no
# user input, and is hard to implement correctly in Ruby: delete all files and
# directories older than 120 minutes under /some/path, but not /some/path
# itself.
Gitlab::Popen.popen(%W(find /some/path -not -path /some/path -mmin +120 -delete))
```
This coding style could have prevented CVE-2013-4490.