On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Adam Jimerson <vend...@charter.net> wrote:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>
> > Adam Jimerson wrote:
> >>
> >> According to perlsec I need to use it as a key in a hash or reference a
> >> substring. The example given is
> >>
> >> ,----[ ]
> >> if ($data =~ /^([...@\w.]+)$/) {
> >> $data = $1; # $data now untainted
> >> } else {
> >> die "Bad data in '$data'"; # log this somewhere
> >> }
> >> `----
> >>
> >> When I tried it, using the same search string,
> >
> >> Is there something wrong with the above search string?
>
> I attached my code for my program, the error doesn't happen until the form
> is filled out. The error that I get is "Insecure dependency in piped open
> while running with -T switch at /srv/www/cgi-bin/contact line 96." All the
> variables that have user submitted content go through the above search
> string as soon as the program retrieves it.
>
Your regex for the name needs to include the space character. If someone
enters their first and last name with a space in between the regex will not
match, no assignment will be made and the $name variable will not be
untainted.
BTW - I missed this at first, but put some debugging code in after the regex
test which revealed the problem:
$name = param('Name');
if ($name =~ /^([...@\w. ]+)$/) {
$name = $1;
} else {
print "<font color=\"red\">Bad name ($name)</font>\n"; # mw debug
}
Mike
