On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sam,
>
> What is a tainted email address?

Tainted strings are strings that are constructed from outside sources,
and therefore potential security holes (think SQL injection
attack[1]).

Given the restrictions we have on Apache user ids, I think we are safe.

> Craig

- Sam Ruby

>> On Jul 19, 2017, at 11:49 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> This is an automated email from the ASF dual-hosted git repository.
>>
>> rubys pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/whimsy.git
>>
>>
>> The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this push:
>>     new ef281dd  untaint addresses
>> ef281dd is described below
>>
>> commit ef281ddf7b81d2f4936836caf78bdb1b8f7ae296
>> Author: Sam Ruby <[email protected]>
>> AuthorDate: Wed Jul 19 14:49:41 2017 -0400
>>
>>    untaint addresses
>> ---
>> www/board/agenda/views/actions/todos.json.rb | 10 ++++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/www/board/agenda/views/actions/todos.json.rb 
>> b/www/board/agenda/views/actions/todos.json.rb
>> index 205a67e..336fd10 100644
>> --- a/www/board/agenda/views/actions/todos.json.rb
>> +++ b/www/board/agenda/views/actions/todos.json.rb
>> @@ -73,10 +73,16 @@ if @add and env.password
>>   ASF::Mail.configure
>>   sender = ASF::Person.new(env.user)
>>   mail = Mail.new do
>> -    from "#{sender.public_name} <#{sender.id}@apache.org>"
>> -    to people.map {|person| "#{person.public_name} 
>> <#{person.id}@apache.org>"}
>> +    from "#{sender.public_name} <#{sender.id}@apache.org>".untaint
>> +
>> +    to people.map do |person|
>> +      "<#{person.id}@apache.org>".untaint
>> +    end
>> +
>>     cc 'Apache Board <[email protected]>'
>> +
>>     subject "Congratulations on your new role at Apache"
>> +
>>     body "Dear new PMC chairs,\n\nCongratulations on your new role at " +
>>     "Apache. I've changed your LDAP privileges to reflect your new " +
>>     "status.\n\nPlease read this and update the foundation records:\n" +
>>
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>
> Craig L Russell
> Architect
> [email protected]
> P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
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