Re: [ID 19991230.004] Phrack finds a major perl bug

[Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:27:30AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to Russ Allbery:
> > Just use %00.  This one may be somewhat more interesting than the
> > others given that it also affects sysopen().
> 
> Hm.  I wonder if we should address this by forbidding NUL bytes in
> sysopen() filenames.

Perhaps with "perl -U" as an escape mechanism.

Tim.

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References to:

ap296@torfree.net
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>

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