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Date:      Sun, 4 May 1997 11:10:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why are we still using Perl 4.x .. ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.970504110825.21555A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970504222013.1090C-100000@obiwan.psinet.net.au>

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On Sun, 4 May 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> 
> > 
> > On both 2.1R and 2.1.5R boxes, Im having this really really weird problem
> > with perl.
> 
> This question kinda sparked another one..
> 
> Why in gods name are we still using Perl 4 in the base distribution?
> 
> That perl 5.00x exploit released on bugtraq a while back.. does anyone
> still have a copy of it somewhere? Has anyone tried exploiting suidperl 4
> like that?

Suidperl 4.036 is vulnerable.  Has this been announced?  I wonder whom I
should contact to report this if it's not already known.
 
> What exactly is the current status with getting perl 5 into the tree?
> 
> Just curious..
> 
> Adrian.
> 
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."




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