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Re: Upcoming change to perl: current directory in @INC



Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> writes:
> On 2016-09-08 08:44:54 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> That's a little better but not a lot better.  It means that it's still
>> unsafe to run any script out of a world-writeable directory such as
>> /tmp, even if the sticky bit is set.

> Running things in /tmp or its subdirectories is prone to security
> bugs people do not care to fix.

And yet, sadly, people do it all the time.  :(

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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