No, I have not emailed Lincoln rrwo. Unfortunately I have internet connectivity at work but no outgoing email :-( I presumed that there was no way an oversight this big could have occurred so put it up for discussion. It got moved here by one of the editors. It seems the problem is a bad (hand) install as noted above. Still cause for concern as the hand install seems to run (kinda)!

I am a convert of CGI.pm, although as I don't use the HTML display part feel (like others) that it might be better split into two modules - a CGI data parsing part and an HTML generating part. Yes, I know there are alternatives but this module is the *gold standard* that comes with Perl so it is concerning than someone seems to have devised a way to silently break it through a bad install. Some code at the begining of the module like: 

die "Bad install detected" unless module_checks_out();

[download]

might be nice if this is indeed the case. It would be trivial to include some code that adds a __DATA__ element that CGI.pm could have added to it during a proper install and read before running via the module_checks_out() sub postulated above. The speed penalty would be negligible as no system call would be required, just a read off the <DATA> filehandle.

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Re: A serious security problem with CGI.pm 3.01? by tachyon
in thread A serious security problem with CGI.pm 3.01? by tachyon

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