Re: OT, sorta: Breaking pipes?

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 07:34, Chris Myers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do you use Perl at all with CGI scripts? If so, this is just an example of
> what might be done with anything written with custom scripts. In this case,
> it is a specific vendor, but it could happen to anyone who does not code
> diligently.
>
> http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/496064

We don't use perl/cgi here, but the example is instructive.

This issue at hand is for web browsing by clients - the newish manager
believes that it's just too annoying to add exceptions for the
misbehaving web sites. Of course, it's not just the pipe character.
It's also the other unsafe/unwise characters, and the URLs that are
longer than 1024 characters, etc.

At some point we may be hosting a web site locally, but that hasn't happened.

This is really an education issue, so anything that I can add to the
ammunition pile is helpful.

Kurt