Re: Trojan Horse? (taint mode)

[mattr]

I can't figure out why you would ever want to execute/eval untainted CGI input as-is. And I don't know if I'd trust Perl's CGI tainting to keep my evals safe from those curly brackets.. paranoia is good there.

As far as standard input, you are worried about a user maliciously erasing all their own files? Or are you allowing users to run suid? Context?

update 2002.1.26 sorry I missed your/blakem's quotation.

[IraTarball]

The context is general knowledge. This all started when I read the passage I tersely quoted and blakem included in full. It's not to solve a specific implementation problem, but rather to ensure understanding so that I can avoid specific implementation problems.

I can't figure out why you would ever want to execute/eval untainted CGI input as-is

Yeah, that does sound dangerous. That's why the quoted material caught my attention. It seemes to imply that code could be evaluated without my express permission but instead simply because I put it in double quotes. That kinda freaked me out.

Thanks,

Ira,

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