I still remember that video I watched where a line in the Steam code back in the day was titled SCARY!!! and it was rm -rf $STEAMROOT. This nuked a guy’s computer because short answer $STEAMROOT was actually / root, long answer here’s the video. This nuked both his PC and his external drive that is some pretty bad code but this JavaScript code is up there
That’s the issue I linked. The problem was that at some point a script executed rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/*", but did not make sure that $STEAMROOT was set. If for some reason it was empty, the path became /* after substitution.
I still remember that video I watched where a line in the Steam code back in the day was titled SCARY!!! and it was rm -rf $STEAMROOT. This nuked a guy’s computer because short answer $STEAMROOT was actually / root, long answer here’s the video. This nuked both his PC and his external drive that is some pretty bad code but this JavaScript code is up there
That’s the issue I linked. The problem was that at some point a script executed
rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/*", but did not make sure that$STEAMROOTwas set. If for some reason it was empty, the path became/*after substitution.