Given that, can you tell me why it's tainted?

Short answer: read perlsec.

Long answer: @spec comes from file so it gets tainted. $tmp1 and $tmp2 are derived from @spec so they become tainted too. And $width with $height become tainted because they are derived from $tmp1 and $tmp2.

If you want to unaint $width and $height your code should look like: 

sub getfilesize{
    my @spec=();
    open FH, $file;
    for (0..9){$spec[$_] = getc(FH);}
    close FH;
    my $tmp1 = unpack("H2",$spec[7]).unpack("H2",$spec[6]);
    my $tmp2 = unpack("H2",$spec[9]).unpack("H2",$spec[8]);
    $width = unpack('s',pack('s',hex($tmp2)));
    ($width) = $width =~ /(\d+)/;
    $height = unpack('s',pack('s',hex($tmp1)));
    ($height) = $height =~ /(\d+)/;
    }

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BTW if you are looking for simplicity just use Image::Size: 

use Image::Size;
my ($width, $height) = imgsize($file);
($width) = $width =~ /(\d+)/;
($height) = $height =~ /(\d+)/;

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P.S. It is unrelated to your question but you are using bad coding practices in your code. You are using global variables without need: to pass parameters to sub ($file) and to return data from the sub ($width and $height). It is better to rewrite you sub this way: 

sub getfilesize{
    my $file = shift;
    my @spec=();
    open FH, $file;
    for (0..9){$spec[$_] = getc(FH);}

    close FH;
    my $tmp1 = unpack("H2",$spec[7]).unpack("H2",$spec[6]);
    my $tmp2 = unpack("H2",$spec[9]).unpack("H2",$spec[8]);
    my $width = unpack('s',pack('s',hex($tmp2)));
    ($width) = $width =~ /(\d+)/;
    my $height = unpack('s',pack('s',hex($tmp1)));
    ($height) = $height =~ /(\d+)/;
    return ($width, $height);
    }

# example of sub call
my ($width, $height) = getfilesize('/path/to/file.gif');

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Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Another day, another Tk question by IlyaM
in thread Taint error with Tk by Popcorn Dave

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