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syscall, os/exec: unsanitized NUL in environment variables #56284

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On Windows, syscall.StartProcess and os/exec.Cmd did not properly check for invalid environment variable values. A malicious environment variable value could exploit this behavior to set a value for a different environment variable. For example, the environment variable string "A=B\x00C=D" set the variables "A=B" and "C=D".

Thanks to RyotaK (https://twitter.com/ryotkak) for reporting this issue.

This is CVE-2022-41716 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/56284.

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