Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2016-04-02 Thread Niko Tyni
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 11:21:45PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:49:59PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > > Just a note that this topic has resurfaced upstream; the thread starts at > > > > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-03/msg00265.html > >

Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2016-04-01 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Control: forwarded -1 https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=127810 On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:49:59PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > Just a note that this topic has resurfaced upstream; the thread starts at > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-03/msg00265.html And ag

Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2012-03-12 Thread Niko Tyni
Just a note that this topic has resurfaced upstream; the thread starts at http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-03/msg00265.html -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2011-05-21 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
severity 588017 important thanks On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 09:01:18PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > tag 588017 + squeeze-ignore > thanks > > On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 16:24 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:58:34AM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > > > > Niko Tyni wri

Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2010-08-15 Thread Adam D. Barratt
tag 588017 + squeeze-ignore thanks On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 16:24 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:58:34AM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > > Niko Tyni writes: > > I agree. This is very likely to break things. > > > > > Ansgar, could you please discuss this upstream

Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2010-08-15 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:58:34AM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Niko Tyni writes: > > > While I agree it's potentially harmful, I think fixing it has a very > > high risk of breaking user scripts. It's definitely not something to do > > in a stable security update, and I'm not enthusiastic a

Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2010-08-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
package perl forwarded 588017 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg162729.html thanks Hi, Niko Tyni writes: > While I agree it's potentially harmful, I think fixing it has a very > high risk of breaking user scripts. It's definitely not something to do > in a stable s

Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2010-08-04 Thread Niko Tyni
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 07:47:34PM +0100, Chris Butler wrote: > It looks like this is a concious decision by upstream, it's even documented > in perlvar(1): > > The array @INC contains the list of places that the "do EXPR", > "require", or "use" constructs look for their library files. I

Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2010-07-12 Thread Chris Butler
tag 588017 +upstream thanks On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 06:47:32PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > I'm not going to start play severity games, but thie looks very much > like a security bug to me. It looks like this is a concious decision by upstream, it's even documented in perlvar(1): The a

Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2010-07-04 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 08:34:35PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > perl includes the current directory as the last element in @INC when not > > running in taint mode (-T). As many modules try to load other modules > > that may or may not be installed, this can resul

Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2010-07-04 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
package perl severity 588017 grave thanks Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Whoa, this is quite hasty. Maybe. > The reason that this is a security bug is > because the current directory should not be trusted, because it might > be writable by a *different* non-root user who might wish to trick you > in

Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2010-07-04 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
package perl severity 588017 normal thanks Hi Ansgar, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > perl includes the current directory as the last element in @INC when not > running in taint mode (-T). As many modules try to load other modules > that may or may not be installed, this can result in code execution.

Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

2010-07-03 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: perl Version: 5.10.1-13 Severity: grave Tags: security Hi, perl includes the current directory as the last element in @INC when not running in taint mode (-T). As many modules try to load other modules that may or may not be installed, this can result in code execution. Example: libte