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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:39:57 +0200
From:      Ville =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Skytt=E4?= <scop@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-cvsweb@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: fail to spawn rlog actually a taint issue
Message-ID:  <1068727197.919.45.camel@bobcat.mine.nu>
In-Reply-To: <22733.131.232.4.112.1068706277.squirrel@secure.athabascau.ca>
References:  <22733.131.232.4.112.1068706277.squirrel@secure.athabascau.ca>

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On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:51, ausec@athabascau.ca wrote:

> Insecure dependency in exec while running with -T switch at
> cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 2141
> 
> If I knew enough perl I'd change it to work correctly but for now if I
> turn off taint it works Ok.

Yep, known issue, bites when using FreeBSD-CVSweb < 2.9.1 with Perl >=
5.8.  This has been fixed in 2.9.1 (the new beta), for earlier versions
turning off taint mode is an ok workaround.



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