How embarrasing for Netanel Rubin to embarrass himself and checkpoint.com like that

http://blog.gerv.net/2014/10/new-class-of-vulnerability-in-perl-web-applications/

Its amazing the amount of people that blame others for not reading the docs

But you know whats even more amazing? They patched CGI.pm to warn about this 

    # list context can be dangerous so warn:
    # http://blog.gerv.net/2014.10/new-class-of-vulnerability-in-perl-
+web-applications
    if ( wantarray && $LIST_CONTEXT_WARN ) {
        my ( $package, $filename, $line ) = caller;
        if ( $package ne 'CGI' ) {
            warn "CGI::param called in list context from package $pack
+age line $line, this can lead to vulnerabilities. "
                . 'See the warning in "Fetching the value or values of
+ a single named parameter"';
        }
    }

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Whatever you thought about CGI.pm before, its about to get real stupid, its breaking backwards compatibility... that was like the only good thing left about it

In reply to Re: Stop Using Perl by Anonymous Monk
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