Re: capture exception

Dirk-Willem van Gulik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 30 May 2017, at 16:43, John Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> How is it a security hole?
….
> > my $ret = eval { $m->...() };

Just imagine $m->…() returning something containing a valid perl expression such as " `rm -rf /‘; “, system(“rm -rf /“);  or something that wires up a shell to a TCP socket.

Dw.
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