texlua-based tool and restricted shell escape

Joseph Wright joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Wed Feb 21 08:35:49 CET 2024


On 21/02/2024 00:25, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am one of the users who disabled shell_escape. The shell_escape
> commands are defined without full paths thus it is possible that a
> malicious program with that name will be written to the computer and
> executed. If someone sends me a file which relies on shell_escape, it
> will not work on my computers.

That is of course your choice: nothing in my query affects that.

Joseph



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