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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-03-19 03:15:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-03-19 03:15:58 +0000 |
| commit | 41d6edb2c1acac32a0296d594f0943752d23f077 (patch) | |
| tree | 66ec857b54096fa525d2f4fa3f1741b9f8f9462e /pod/perldelta.pod | |
| parent | d929ce6fe8f415355968ae904607a49f36ad5c70 (diff) | |
| download | perl-41d6edb2c1acac32a0296d594f0943752d23f077.tar.gz | |
Taint msgrcv() messages; general SysV IPC cleanup.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5812
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldelta.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 52a6fba599..d4d82f3c2d 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -212,11 +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 +=head2 The msgrcv() and shmread() now taint -Because other (untrusted) processes can modify shared memory segments -for their own nefarious purposes, the variable modified by shmread() -becomes tainted. +Because other (untrusted) processes can modify messages and shared +memory segments for their own nefarious purposes, the messages +returned by msgrcv() (and its object-oriented interface, +IPC::SysV::Msg::rcv) and the variable modified by shmread() are tainted. =back |