Re: capture exception

1) Passing a block(as opposed to a string) is no more dangerous than
executing the same code outside of eval. For example,

my $success = eval {
    my %member_hash;
    my $member_hash;
    my $member_Co;
    foreach (@memb) {
            # Fetch entry.

            my $entry2 = $m->comp("/widgets/ldap/dn2entry.mpl",
                ldap => $ldap,
                dn   => $_,
                opts => {control => $control}, # Important!
            );

            $member_Co =  $entry2->get_value('company');
    }

    return 1;
};

if (!$success) {
    warn "ERROR: $@";
}

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Hiram Gibbard <[email protected]> wrote:

> So when we say "from the internet" does that include intranet?  What I
> have is a form that lists all the members of a group defined in LDAP. The
> call to get the members for the group is all internal and our companies
> internal ldap server. is that considered "from internet". I didn't write
> this app, just trying to make adjustments. Currently if you hit a member of
> the group that has been terminated/removed from ldap, the app errors out
> because the its it a member of the group in which its trying to execute a
> look on while listing.
>
> my %member_hash;
> my $member_hash;
> my $member_Co;
> foreach (@memb) {
>         # Fetch entry.
>
>         my $entry2 = $m->comp("/widgets/ldap/dn2entry.mpl",
>             ldap => $ldap,
>             dn   => $_,
>             opts => {control => $control}, # Important!
>         );
>
>         $member_Co =  $entry2->get_value('company');
>
>  }
>
> 1. Is it a security issue to wrap $entry2 code in a eval { } statement?
> 2. I'm thinking there is a better way to do this because (code wise)
> becuase ever since i put the eval {} in place (in dev env), groups with
> thousands of members takes a very long time to display.
>
>
> here is the code for dn2entry.mpl:
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 3:13 PM, John Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Okay, I can see that but we were talking specifically about eval. So, my
>> examples were intended to showcase the two ways that eval can be called and
>> not how to safely obtain data from the internet.
>>
>> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Ruben Safir <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/30/2017 04:04 PM, John Dunlap wrote:
>>> > In that example, the contents of $data are never evaluated by eval so
>>> > even if it can be "smashed"(whatever that means) eval would have
>>> nothing
>>> > to do with the failure.
>>>
>>>
>>> it means your bringing in data without a limit and you can smash the
>>> stack like that and I've seen this kind of code do just that.
>>>
>>> That is not just an issue for eval...
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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