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Re: Perl System Call HACKS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian W. Spolarich)
Mon Feb 10 19:21:58 1997

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 16:49:09 -0500 (EST)
From: "Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@ans.net>
To: Jeff Middleton <jeffm@sgiserv3.aws.waii.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9702100746.ZM23110@sgiserv3.aws.waii.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Jeff Middleton wrote:

| Is there a FAQ or information giving some examples as to the way
| a perl script that executes sendmail via a PERL system call can
| be hacked?

  I'd start with the WWW Security FAQ

  http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html

  especially sections 6 (CGI scripts) and 7 (Safe Scripting in Perl).

  -brian

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