Re: suidperl

"Akinori MUSHA" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.audit
Organization Associated I. Daemons
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:50:09 +1000,
Tim Robbins wrote:
> In any case, the way /usr/bin/perl relies on PATH to find the interpreter
> is unsafe to a lesser degree even with the suid bit turned off.

Indeed.  We must add the same check that the real suidperl has to the
wrapper.

By the way, do we really need a perl wrapper in the first place? I
suppose we can tweak ports/lang/perl5 to create symlinks (for example)
when NO_PERL_SYMLINKS is not defined.

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