Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 06:30:03 GMT From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/177416: mail/postgrey has surfaced a bug in perl's taint checking Message-ID: <201306230630.r5N6U3sl017667@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/177416; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: ports/177416: mail/postgrey has surfaced a bug in perl's taint checking Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 01:23:35 -0500 ----- Forwarded message from Paul Beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> ----- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:16:48 -0700 From: Paul Beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> To: Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/177416: mail/postgrey has surfaced a bug in perl's taint checking X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1508) On Jun 21, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> wrote: > I only tried with a UNIX socket, not with an INET socket, but the > culprit is likely the same: Socket.pm is pulling in some other module > that taints what its passing to the socket call. Unfortunately, I > don't seem to have a Perl module on my system causing it to fail anymore > (after getting rid of Getopt::Long). On further testing, I found I can reliably cause it to hang without displaying the Taint error if I use a unix socket but it always works on a port. The presence of the port you found is the toggle. Nice work ;-) -- Paul Beard This space intentionally left blank. ----- End forwarded message -----
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