Re: New Perl Vulnerability?

[bluto]

Is this news? This sounds like the sort of thing that taint checking was invented for.

From the article:

You can get something up and running quickly. Presumably, if it's not a one-time type program, you should polish it up afterwards, adding things like error checking and security checks but, shocking as it might seem, this doesn't always happen.

I.e. poor programmers can write bad code -- no big deal. Or how about ...

In fact, from my own experience digging around Perl programs, they're among the sloppiest and most unreadable programs out there.

It's almost as if he's arguing that Perl programs just accumulate syntax trash, no matter how well meaning the programmer was. This is not a flaw of the language.

Update: Removed inflammatory stuff. I know better than to write posts immediately after attending a funeral :-(

[Anonymous Monk]

FD had a reference to just Ubuntu. I'd be keen to know exactly what the sitution is here in general - although maybe we will have to wait on a POC.