Re: [perl #75212] uid+euid assignment no longer works due todelaymagic changes

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 05:37:26AM -0700, mls@suse.de wrote:
> perl-5.10.0 used the delyamagic mechanism to translate a
>     ($<, $>) = (99, 99);
> assignment into one single setreuid() syscall. As of commit
> 90630e3c741716305d7f1da4df5eab5c1bee42cc this no longer works,
> as delaymagic is cleared before calling mg_set().
> 
> As a result, perl first does the uid and then the euid assignment,
> which may result in a suddenly tainted perl.
> 
> You can see the difference by running
>     perl -e '($<, $>) = (99, 99); system `echo /bin/true`'
> as root in perl-5.10.0 and perl-5.12.0.

Thanks for the report and diagnosis. Now fixed in blead with commit
8ef242405b8c660c02e953dbc987fbc06897af10.

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• [perl #75212] uid+euid assignment no longer works due to delaymagic changes by mls @ suse . de
• Re: [perl #75212] uid+euid assignment no longer works due todelaymagic changes by Dave Mitchell