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venv: do not prepend a truncated shebang interpreter #2203

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When a user invokes a tox call with TOX_LIMITED_SHEBANG set, any shebang-based scripts will have their interpreter's extracted and explicitly executed. An issue with the initial implementation is that if the configured interpreter is truncated to a path of another executable, the wrong executable can be invoked instead (see also [1][2]). To prevent this, an extra byte is read to ensure the length of the extracted interpreter is within the configured limit (MAXINTERP); otherwise the call will know the interpreter has been truncated and will fallback onto the original argument list.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/fs/binfmt_script.c?id=8099b047ecc431518b9bb6bdbba3549bbecdc343
[2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/fs/binfmt_script.c?id=b5372fe5dc84235dbe04998efdede3c4daa866a9

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Please add a changelog for this.

When a user invokes a `tox` call with `TOX_LIMITED_SHEBANG` set, any
shebang-based scripts will have their interpreter's extracted and
explicitly executed. An issue with the initial implementation is that if
the configured interpreter is truncated to a path of another executable,
the wrong executable can be invoked instead (see also [1][2]). To
prevent this, an extra byte is read to ensure the length of the
extracted interpreter is within the configured limit (MAXINTERP);
otherwise the call will know the interpreter has been truncated and will
fallback onto the original argument list.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/fs/binfmt_script.c?id=8099b047ecc431518b9bb6bdbba3549bbecdc343
[2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/fs/binfmt_script.c?id=b5372fe5dc84235dbe04998efdede3c4daa866a9

Signed-off-by: James Knight <james.d.knight@live.com>
Signed-off-by: James Knight <james.d.knight@live.com>
@gaborbernat gaborbernat merged commit 51cc218 into tox-dev:master Sep 16, 2021
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@jdknight jdknight deleted the do-not-invoke-truncated-interpreter branch September 17, 2021 00:27
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