Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
go ahead... be a heretic
 
PerlMonks  

Re^2: problem with 'strftime' on unix systems

by gellyfish (Monsignor)
on Oct 23, 2006 at 14:08 UTC ( [id://580041]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: problem with 'strftime' on unix systems
in thread problem with 'strftime' on unix systems

You might to want think carefully before passing user supplied input to the format string of strftime, the POSIX passes this virtually unchanged to the system strftime where there is potential for a 'Format String Vulnerability'.

/J\

Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Node Status?
node history
Node Type: note [id://580041]
help
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others having a coffee break in the Monastery: (5)
As of 2024-04-25 06:58 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found