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People from Debian were porting our patch from Fedora 13 for perl-5.10.1. They found out that test part is missing tainted part, therefore we need patch the test part in next update. The security issue was fixed and tested, so it's only matter of automatic test-suite.
Created attachment 493741 [details] tain.t patch fixes previous incorrect testing
(In reply to comment #0) > People from Debian were porting our patch from Fedora 13 for perl-5.10.1. The our patch is patch for bug #692862.
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The difference is: --- a/t/op/taint.t +++ b/t/op/taint.t @@ -1320,13 +1320,13 @@ foreach my $ord (78, 163, 256) { # [perl #87336] lc/uc(first) failing to taint the returned string my $source = "foo$TAINT"; my $dest = lc $source; - test $dest, "lc(tainted) taints its return value"; + test tainted $dest, "lc(tainted) taints its return value"; $dest = lcfirst $source; - test $dest, "lcfirst(tainted) taints its return value"; + test tainted $dest, "lcfirst(tainted) taints its return value"; $dest = uc $source; - test $dest, "uc(tainted) taints its return value"; + test tainted $dest, "uc(tainted) taints its return value"; $dest = ucfirst $source; - test $dest, "ucfirst(tainted) taints its return value"; + test tainted $dest, "ucfirst(tainted) taints its return value"; } # This may bomb out with the alarm signal so keep it last This will be fixed by editing perl-5.10.1-lc_launders_taint.patch.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1534.html