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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-03-19 01:48:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-03-19 01:48:47 +0000 |
| commit | 76b4dddb537b3d56f34e77bec9b5bbf501d79ee6 (patch) | |
| tree | 55c5af0a110b532106f3395cc36541ef70d8358f /pod/perldelta.pod | |
| parent | b9267ed41887ff2fb4a514107bca74d8e003eb8d (diff) | |
| download | perl-76b4dddb537b3d56f34e77bec9b5bbf501d79ee6.tar.gz | |
Taint shmread().
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5811
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 88655bed8f..52a6fba599 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -212,6 +212,12 @@ Because the user can affect her own encrypted password and login shell the password and shell returned by the getpwent(), getpwnam(), and getpwuid() functions are tainted. +=head2 The shmread() now taints its variable + +Because other (untrusted) processes can modify shared memory segments +for their own nefarious purposes, the variable modified by shmread() +becomes tainted. + =back =head2 C Source Incompatibilities |