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use Perl Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
    * Security hole found in the Safe module

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Security hole found in the Safe module                             |
|   posted by rafael on Sunday October 06, @06:21 (modules)          |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/06/1118222              |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

[0]rafael writes "A security hole has been discovered in Safe.pm. When a
Safe compartment has already been used, there's no guarantee that it's
safe any longer, because there's a way for code executed within the Safe
compartment to alter its operation mask. (Thus, programs that use a Safe
compartment only once aren't affected by this bug.)" Read below for the
fixes...

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/06/1118222

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=02/10/06/1118222

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