perhaps if I were using the 'e' flag it would be a problem.

You're using string eval, its a problem right now, just because I didn't provide working exploit on purpose

That to me is like saying, "go to your terminal, and type ...

Imagine some user telling you , hey, I can't get your program to work, here is what I tried, and then you enter what the user gives you, and you execute rm -rf

Imagine forgetting how your program works, and accidentally getting rm -rf to execute

You do absolutely nothing to ensure that can't happen. The cheapest option is to use taint (-T).

If this is just a program for personal use, why wouldn't you simply use perl -E ... ?

In reply to Re^7: hex code passed from command line is interpreted literally in substitution by Anonymous Monk
in thread hex code passed from command line is interpreted literally in substitution by Allasso

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