Re: readline taint screwup in mj_shell

"John R. Levine" <[email protected]> 8 Dec 2009 12:39:01 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.majordomo.majordomo2.devel
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> I couldn't find the problem with that module, either. I installed the Gnu 
> readline module, which doesn't suffer from the same problem.

Good thought.  Works great.  Thanks!

>
> Michael
>
> John R. Levine wrote:
>> I'm running perl 5.8.9 on FreeBSD. In mj_shell, I can type regular text, 
>> but when I do a backspace or any other editing character, it dies with
>> 
>> Insecure dependency in eval while running setuid at 
>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/SelfLoader.pm line 73.
>> 
>> It's using the perl readline, and I have been poking at it without success. 
>> When I try to run .mj_shell under the perl debugger it dies with some other 
>> complaint before it even tries to read anything from the keyboard.
>> 
>> I vaguely remember fixing this before, but I can't remember what I did. As 
>> I recall, it's a bug in one of the libraries that MJ uses, not in MJ 
>> itself. Ring any bells?