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[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / bugs / taint_issue_with_regular_expressions.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/bugs/taint_issue_with_regular_expressions.mdwn b/doc/bugs/taint_issue_with_regular_expressions.mdwn
index 5ba9e19f6ae042b4b4302bff4a99604a54015086..172b49fd1a6dc1ece49ae7de4183cdcc9af0cba8 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/bugs/taint_issue_with_regular_expressions.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/taint_issue_with_regular_expressions.mdwn
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ which is exactly the same regular expression drawn out as a constant.  It appear
 > hole. It seems more likely that perl containes to have taint flag bugs
 > even in 5.8. See also: [[prune_causing_taint_mode_failures]],
 > [[Insecure_dependency_in_mkdir]],
-> [[Insecure_dependency_in_eval_while_running_with_-T_switch.mdwn]],
-> and especially [[debbug 411786]]
+> [[Insecure_dependency_in_eval_while_running_with_-T_switch]],
+> and especially [[!debbug 411786]]
 >
 > The last of those was the last straw for me, and I disabled taint
 > checking in the debian package. You can do the same by building ikiwiki
@@ -29,3 +29,7 @@ without any payload of the actual regexp, and that would also certainly also hav
     'wiki_file_regexp' => qr/(?-xism:(^[-[:alnum:]_.:\/+]+$))/
 
 This would call for at most an installation prerequisite of Data::Dumper >= 1.121.  A look at the module's changelog shows that no intervening versions were actually released, so 1.121 would be the minimal good one.
+
+> You must have a very old version of perl there. This seems to be a bug in
+> data dumper before 2.11, which didn't properly dump q// objects. Prereq
+> added, [[done]] --[[Joey]]