Well you are right of course, BUT I was thinking along the lines of "sneaking in an innocent looking file" which could be executed later as part of a hidden attack. Say the module installs a file, marked executable, and innocently named like "thanks.txt". Well I didn't bother to read it ( or may have done an automatic CPAN install". Now "someone knows" that /usr/lib/Perl5..../somedir/thanks.txt" is just sitting there waiting for a another script in the "attack-plan"( which possibly needs root priviledges to run).

Sure, the same thing could be done in other ways, but this is such an "obvious hole", that can be so easily prevented, that I thought I would bring it up.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re^2: Executable bit sloppiness in modules by zentara
in thread Executable bit sloppiness in modules by zentara

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