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Message-ID: <122827b90512032244x7b39d05h4c80bf64c3a49a6e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 01:44:29 -0500
From: Stan Bubrouski <stan.bubrouski@...il.com>
To: "Michael J. Pomraning" <mjp@...urepipe.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com,
	"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Format String Vulnerabilities in Perl
	Programs


On 12/3/05, Michael J. Pomraning <mjp@...urepipe.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
> For Perl projects, I'd also nominate syslog(), from the standard Sys::Syslog
> module, for special attention.  It's common in *NIX environments regardless
> of programmers' backgrounds and is extremely likely to be called with
> untrusted data interpolated directly in the format string argument --
> syslog("info", "A user said $user_input"), for example.
>

This has been mentioned numerous times, including this week (?), nothing new.

-sb

> Regards,
> Mike
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