On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 05:10:17PM +0100, Clive Eisen wrote: > It is only a security hole if you eval user input. >
What do you call return values from the internet? > > -- > Clive Eisen > GPG: 75056DD0 > > > > > > > > On 30 May 2017, at 17:00, Hiram Gibbard <hgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I might be hijacking this... Sorry, but...I recently used the Perl eval > > function to determine if a ldap search returned a error or not. Basically, > > a user's record has a attribute that points to a assistant, and If that > > assistant no longer exists the app was throwing a error since it executed a > > ldap call to that assistant's record. So I used eval to check if the error > > was returned, and if so, skipped the function where it tied searched the > > assistant record in ldap. Is this the same eval scenario you described > > which has a security whole? > > > > > > I was just reading everyone's reply and now I am worried I created a > > security hole. > > > > Thanks > > > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik > > <di...@webweaving.org <mailto:di...@webweaving.org>> wrote: > > > > > On 30 May 2017, at 16:58, p...@cpan.org <mailto:p...@cpan.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Tuesday 30 May 2017 15:53:13 James Smith wrote: > > >> String eval should be avoided at all costs [especially if you parse user > > >> input] - functional eval is different - and is a good model for catching > > >> errors etc > > > > > > Yes, string eval should be avoided in all usage. But this discussion was > > > about that functional eval. > > > > Aye - right you are - apologies for causing confusing and missing the (/{. > > > > Dw. > > > > > > > > -- > > Hiram Gibbard > > hgibb...@gmail.com <mailto:hgibb...@gmail.com> > > http://hiramgibbard.com <http://hiramgibbard.com/> > > > -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
