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printf is tainted!?
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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
October 23, 1999 15:53
Subject:
printf is tainted!?
Message ID:
199910232253.QAA08020@jhereg.perl.com
I read this in perlfunc:
To cope with broken systems that allow the standard locales to
be overridden by malicious users, the return value may be tainted
if any of the floating point formats are used and the conversion
yields something that doesn't look like a normal C-locale floating
point number. This happens regardless of whether `use locale' is in
effect or not.
Let us imagine that this is astonishing but true. Shouldn't it be
in perlsec? And shouldn't it be in perldelta?
--tom
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printf is tainted!?
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