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

[Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>]

According to Sam Tregar:
> On 6 Jan 2000, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > ... nul characters embedded in the middle of file names
> > passed to sysopen().
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised if there are scripts that actually use this
> feature.

Nor would I.  Just about any doggone weird thing than can be done with
Perl has probably been done.  Twice.

> Maybe it should be a warning, if it's going to be anything but
> acceptable?

Hmph.  A warning normally, an error in taint mode?
-- 
Chip Salzenberg          - a.k.a. -           <chip@valinux.com>
        "He's Mr. Big of 'Big And Tall' fame."  // MST3K

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References to:

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Sam Tregar <sam@tregar.com>

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