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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