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bash-completion: incorrect metacharacter quoting

Package(s):bash-completion CVE #(s):
Created:May 4, 2009 Updated:May 6, 2009
Description:

From the Red Hat bugzilla:

An old Debian bug report (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=259987) indicates that some bash completions fail to properly quote or escape special characters like ' and &. Most bash completions are escaped fine, but certain ones (such as aspell) do not.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-3639 2009-04-14
Fedora FEDORA-2009-3640 2009-04-14
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