Re: Re: Format String Vulnerabilities in Perl Programs

[Stan Bubrouski <stan.bubrouski () gmail com>]

On 12/3/05, Michael J. Pomraning <mjp () securepipe com> wrote:
<SNIP>
> For Perl projects, I'd also nominate syslog(), from the standard Sys::Syslog
> module, for special attention.  It's common in *NIX environments regardless
> of programmers' backgrounds and is extremely likely to be called with
> untrusted data interpolated directly in the format string argument --
> syslog("info", "A user said $user_input"), for example.

This has been mentioned numerous times, including this week (?), nothing new.

-sb

> Regards,
> Mike
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