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-rw-r--r--Build/source/texk/kpathsea/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/ChangeLog b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/ChangeLog
index dc1bd95adf3..b7e89628ec3 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/ChangeLog
+++ b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-06-29 Karl Berry <karl@tug.org>
+
+ * texmf.cnf (shell_escape_commands): remove extractbb.
+
2024-06-04 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
* texmf.cnf (MKTEXPK, etc.): adjust values shown to the
diff --git a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf
index 94d1b999fdf..fe720f41e84 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf
+++ b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf
@@ -649,7 +649,6 @@ shell_escape = p
%
shell_escape_commands = \
bibtex,bibtex8,\
-extractbb,\
gregorio,\
kpsewhich,\
l3sys-query,\
@@ -660,6 +659,8 @@ repstopdf,\
r-mpost,\
texosquery-jre8,\
+% other programs considered:
+% extractbb - allowed in the past, but can be exploited.
% we'd like to allow:
% dvips - but external commands can be executed, need at least -R1.
% epspdf, ps2pdf, pstopdf - need to respect openout_any,